multicellular organisms like humans. Several key moments in Earth's history help us humans answer the question, "How did we get here?" These moments also shed light on the question, "Where are we ...

Artist and INCUBATOR Art Lab Director Jennifer Willet created an artwork that visualizes the theories of SETI Institute Drake Award recipients Dr. David Deamer and Dr. John Baross. Willet’s work, ...

A novel suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution.

and offer scientists deeper insight into how organisms adapt to physical and chemical ... His state-of-the-art instruments were essential for obtaining accurate readings of trace nitrogen levels.

These ancient sediments, quietly holding their secrets in South Africa, have finally revealed the exact turning point when oxygen began to reshape our planet.

It was while he was studying fossils at the Banff Centre that Nasca developed an interest in the Mistaken Point fossils of ...

Snowflake yeast has been used to study how lifeforms first became multicellular. Multicellular organisms can grow much larger than those with only one cell — as long as they can deal with the ...

Humans and most complex multicellular organisms are not built to tolerate such heat. That doesn’t mean no living thing can, however. Bacteria called thermophiles (meaning “heat lovers”) have ...

One possibility is that complex multicellular organisms evolved earlier than is generally thought. For example, a 2019 study claimed to have found fossil sponges, one of the earliest animal groups ...

I went hands-on with Veo 3, Google's new AI video generator that can create some truly mind-blowing fake videos to test its amazing power and limitations.

Engineering multicellular consortia, where information processing is distributed across specialized cell types, offers a promising strategy for implementing sophisticated biocomputing systems.