"My contention is that Earth may, if we are lucky and diligent and clever enough, grow an emergent superconsciousness." ...

This ability may allow the bacteria to persist longer on hospital surfaces and inside medical devices—areas once assumed to ...

If I were to ask you what was unusual about Mosura fentoni, you probably wouldn’t know where to start. It looks a bit like a ...

A new imaging technique reveals how single bacterial cells leave their biofilm community, providing insights into how ...

The fossil offers new insight into the transition of single celled organisms to complex, multicellular animals. Modern single-celled holozoa include the most basal living animals and the fossil ...

American molecular biologist Victor Ambros, co-discoverer of microRNA and joint recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, has received an honorary doctorate from the Silesian ...

NASA research shows oxygen loss, not asteroids, will end life on Earth. Discover when and how this will happen in the distant ...

To discuss and engage with each other on these questions, biologists of all stripes - from lab experimentalists to ...

You might think you know which animals and plants are considered "domesticated" or “domestic” and which ones aren't—but a new ...

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

The researchers also reintroduced microbes to the mice after antibiotics through fecal microbial transplants. The rationale ...

A grid painted on a petri dish helps a NOAA technician sort through a sample and identify tiny organisms, such as the larval sergeant major damselfish on the left, just outside the middle row.