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

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

Researchers from TU Wien, University of Vienna, and Tufts University discovered how microorganisms swim efficiently without ...

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

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

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

Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP), a DNA amplification technique valued for its speed, specificity, sensitivity, ...

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

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 ...

The truth is clear: Animal models aren’t just helpful; they’re irreplaceable. They remain central to understanding the ...

University of Calgary researchers have discovered that all living organisms emit extremely faint light undetectable to the ...

A team of researchers studied the properties of membranes to understand how these cellular structures influenced the chemistry of life on Earth as it began.