A new study reveals that the aerobic nitrogen cycle in the ocean may have occurred about 100 million years before oxygen began to significantly accumulate in the atmosphere, based on nitrogen isotope ...

Bacteria can do it, amoebas can do it, even blood cells can do it: They all have the ability to move in a goal-oriented way in liquids. And they do so despite having extremely simple structures ...

You’re seeing hundreds of images mosaic together to encompass the whole fly brain from tip to tip.” On a large monitor, the ...

Several key moments in Earth's history help us humans answer the question "How did we get here?" These moments also shed ...

For now, complex life flourishes on our planet thanks to its supply of oxygen. But Earth's atmosphere wasn't always like it ...

How do organisms adapt to climate change? A new study reveals the complex interplay between genetic diversity and temperature tolerance evolution.

Life on Earth reached a decisive turning point about 2.6 billion years ago. An international team of researchers has just ...

But I study seed science and policy, in which genetically engineered organisms — more often referred to as genetically ... What I object to is a lack of complex evaluations of the technology, the ...

For more than 100,000 years, coastal communities have harvested abalone (genus Haliotis). These gastropods, which are found ...

Biotech company Colossal Biosciences made headlines in April 2025 after claiming it had " successfully restored … the dire ...

A healthy diet is more effective than fecal transplants at restoring and protecting the gut microbiome. Trillions of microbes live in your body. Far from being harmful, most of these microorganisms ...

Our tissue can serve as a “biophysical reservoir” for data processing, blurring the line between man and machine.