New research sheds light on one of the biggest questions in biology: where did complex life come from? The answer may lie ...

William Murphy, PhD, BS, was selected by SEC provosts for the recognition, from among 16 previous achievement award ...

Spring is a time for renewal, transformation, and new beginnings. It’s also a time for your mind to bloom. The winter months ...

Asgard archaea emerged as a key piece in the puzzle of how complex life evolved, acting as a potential link between simple archaea and eukaryotes—organisms like plants and animals whose cells contain ...

Each lizard is unique. Some have longer legs, others stronger jaws, and all behave slightly differently. The differences ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

Feedback, a Lego fan, delves into a new science-related set, and learns that the model of a DNA double helix is the wrong way around. Time for some jokes about mirror ...

Credit: Wild Horizons/Universal Images Group via Getty Images In this excerpt from "Carbon: The Book of Life" (Viking, 2025), ...

Penn State researchers propose that Earth and life have evolved together in a way that is more typical of life-supporting ...

From the first elves in Middle-earth, to Beren and Lúthien, to Isildur — Aragorn has quite the extensive family tree in Lord ...

In a new study published today in Science, researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew), together with global ...