An archaeon reads the same codon in two different ways, overturning a doctrine that has stood for 60 years. Living organisms ...

Liz Pennisi writes about genomics, evolution, microbiology and organismal biology. She has an undergraduate degree in biology from Cornell University and a master's degree in science writing from ...

AMES, Iowa – A highly collaborative approach to gathering data spearheaded by Iowa State University faculty and students has revealed new insight into plant biodiversity and netted publication in a ...

Explore the strange and captivating world of ‘The Cluster’, a speculative biology concept featuring a collective lifeform ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

Scientists are exploring a mysterious third state between life and death. Cell clusters from dead organisms are showing new ...

A flash of bright orange on a rocky outcrop might not look like much, but for paleontologists it could be a beacon pointing ...

Wolf’s first computational biology project started as a bet with a colleague: that she could build an AI model capable of ...

Understanding organismal traits and learning how they evolve and adapt to different environments is crucial for biologists and the battle against biodiversity loss. To be truly efficient, however, the ...

In recent years, the fields of evolutionary biomechanics and morphology have developed into a deeply quantitative and integrative science, resulting in a much richer understanding of how structural ...