The mummy now known as the Zimapán man was found to have a diverse microbiome that reveals more about what one ancient ...

New research has unraveled the mystery of how microscopic cilia coordinate to move and propel marine creatures through water.

Oceanographic magazine reported this week on new research focused on a tiny crustacean called Corophium volutator. This ...

The trajectory of life on Earth has always been predicated by genetic evolution, but two scientists from the University of Maine argue that culture is now the main force shaping our lives. A new study ...

Sexual size differences are widespread in biology, yet the "how" behind them often remains vague. We asked a concrete ...

Once a sperm has broken through to an egg cell in order to fertilise it, the two cells need to hold together tightly. This ...

XChimera, the molecule developed by Payne, Maxwell and colleagues binds thrombin at three distinct sites: its active site and ...

In the early 18th century a French zoologist, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck proposed a theory of so-called “soft inheritance” that predated Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution based on variation and natural ...

I’ve had the privilege of teaching graduate programs at Seton Hall and Rutgers University, and over the past 18 years, I’ve ...

Kate Adamala started work on a cell in which the natural molecular structure is reversed. Then a possible doomsday scenario became clear.

Normal cellular processes in living things — from germinating plants to our own cells — create biophotons, though escaping light isn’t visible to us.