Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of algae called Protocodium sinense that predates the origin of land plants...
In mythologies and origin stories around the world, various cultures and religions point to clay as the vessel of life,...
Dozens of species of frogs, salamanders and other amphibians quietly disappeared from parts of Latin America in the 1980s and...
You don’t need a Ph.D. in agriculture to know that water is critical to crop production. But for years, people...
Are elephants important? How about rhinoceros? Or lions? What happens if Earth loses its last remaining large animals? New research...
New research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst concerning “synanthropic” flies—or the non-biting flies that live with us—argues that we...
The maintenance of a healthy cell population is a dynamic process, whereby unhealthy cells are eliminated by a defense mechanism...
Researchers from Cleveland Clinic’s Florida Research and Innovation Center (FRIC) found that disruption of a cellular structure, known as the...
The human gut microbiome is composed of thousands of different bacteria and archaea that vary widely between populations and individuals....
A new model suggests that a protein involved in the generation of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) works differently than previously thought....
During fruit fly embryo formation, primordial germ cells—the stem cells that will later form eggs and sperm—must travel from the...
As dusk begins cloaking the Maasai Mara grasslands of southwestern Kenya, a spotted hyena slinks beneath the woody umbrella that...
