A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the first animals on Earth were likely ancestors of the modern sea sponge.

For the first time, researchers at Umeå University have observed the same type of programmed cell death in microalgae as in humans. The discovery, published in Nature Communications, shows that this ...

Beneath the Arctic’s frozen surface, tiny algae are defying the rules of biology. Their survival strategy not only redefines ...

The research is opening new frontiers in pest control and evolutionary biology. An international group of scientists has uncovered a strange tubular structure within Profftella, a bacterium that lives ...

How did E. coli become such an essential tool for scientists and will anything replace it?

A lab study on crickets has revealed sex differences in how the insects direct their nutritional resources to increase ...

A multinational research team has discovered a mysterious tubular structure — previously unknown in any organism — within ...

Nobel winners' mapping of ribosomes helps in development of new antibiotics (CNN)-- Two Americans and an Israeli were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for painstakingly mapping out ...

If phosphorus is so critical to life, how did early biology predating cells first use it ... the building blocks that make up proteins – around the molecule. Every known organism has multiple families ...

Rhode Island is suing the Trump administration over its Aug. 22 order to halt construction on Revolution Wind — an offshore wind farm located 15 miles off the coast of R.I. — just hours after ...

Small fold – big role: A tissue fold known as the cephalic furrow, an evolutionary novelty that forms between the head and the trunk of fly embryos, plays a mechanical role in stabilizing embryonic ...