Researchers have discovered a surprising survival strategy that has the potential to transform biotechnology and energy ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Amid the rising challenge of fungal resistance to conventional drugs, researchers at the Indian Institute ...

Diatoms turns a weird Victorian art craze into a solid competitive board game that also has a solo campaign. Read Keith Law's ...

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

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 ...

Every living creature on Earth needs to protect itself from things that would do it harm. Bacteria are no different. And ...

The light of someone's life might not be just another person, but light in the literal sense. According to a recent study by ...

Chemistry professor Chris Chang’s lab studies the chemical biology of the elements, specifically examining the roles that ...

Scientists unmask a 'Skinwalker' parasite that kills human cells and then wears their skin as a disguise to avoid detection.

Kurian calculates that all eukaryotic life — organisms with complex cells — has performed approximately 10 60 logical ...

From an evolutionary perspective, this is exciting because metabolism predates signalling: even single-cell organisms rely on metabolism, while signalling emerged later in evolution. This has sparked ...