The complexity of contemporary biology is a source of wonder, fear, and misunderstanding. Thierry Hoquet reviews the major ...

Mega El Niños could have intensified the world’s most devastating mass extinction, which ended the Permian Period 252 million ...

Metals, particularly iron, have played a crucial role in biological functions since life's inception. Scientists propose that iron was the predominant metal in early life, shaped by its abundance in ...

Eggs are remarkably complicated biological devices that have developed in diverse ways in different species.

It stands metres high, takes a decade to flower, smells like death and draws huge crowds when it blooms. But scientists are ...

In a new study published in Nature Communications, an international team of  researchers reveal new insights into the ...

Berkeley scientists have discovered a new choanoflagellate species in Mono Lake that forms multicellular colonies and hosts a ...

The failure to diagnose Alzheimer's disease—the most common form of dementia in the elderly—at an early stage of molecular ...

A University of Manchester scientist has been awarded the prestigious Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal and Lecture by the Royal ...

The idea that such differences arise from long-term changes in the animal's biology is called "biological embedding ... DNA methylation data with ecological, behavioral, and life history data ...

As Max Jaderberg, Chief AI Officer at Isomorphic Labs describes, the work marks a monumental chapter in human history, as ...