Scientists have recently shed some light on exactly why elephants, one of the biggest animals on the planet, paradoxically ...

Mono Lake, tucked in the Eastern Sierra, is no ordinary lake. Its eerie tufa towers and teeming swarms of brine shrimp and ...

In biology classes from high school through university, I learned that mitochondria are little objects that reside within ...

My search for answers to these stupendously ambitious questions led me, it now seems inexorably, to mitochondria. This idea ...

Understanding the origin of the building block of all animal and plant life may lead to more insights about life on Earth and ...

Very little is known about choanoflagellates, and there are interesting biological phenomena that we can only gain insight ...

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 ...

A new discovery provides a unique example of sexual dimorphism in the structure of a single neuron, which is linked to ...

The earliest cells harnessed energy through geochemical reactions, a process that LMU researchers have now successfully ...

Newly discovered weapons of bacterial self-defense take different approaches to achieving the same goal: preventing a virus from spreading through the bacterial population.

I am no golfer. When I first moved to Kokomo in 1983, I learned our church held an annual men’s golf tournament as a way for ...

When two organisms live together so closely that they merge into a functional unit, this is known as symbiosis. In the "1+1=1" project, an international, interdisciplinary research team is ...