How do microorganisms orient themselves to find the optimal habitat? Scientists have thoroughly investigated so-called ...

How does a single cell build a brain with billions of precisely organized neurons? Researchers suggest that brain cells use their lineage—their cellular family tree—as a kind of positional map. Cells ...

The SpudCell certainly resembles a living cell, but a key structure inside the cell falls short of the real thing ...

Laughing harder than your kids is impossible, but this animated adventure comes surprisingly close for parents watching ...

Scientists have uncovered a possible new route by which “jumping genes” move between species. Credit: Shutterstock. A jumping ...

DNA is contained in each cell of every plant, animal, fungus and microbe. It carries the genetic instructions needed for an organism’s survival, growth and function, and the DNA of each species is ...

Jerry O’Connell and Rebecca Romijn’s twin daughters are the spitting image of their parents as they stepped out for a rare red carpet outing. In a Wednesday Instagram post, the “Tomcats” star, 52, ...

At that stage they aren’t very good at cannibalism, but if a would-be Hulk manages to capture one of its siblings or cousins in its enlarged mouth, “the body plan of the cell rescales, and they grow ...

An advanced research vessel off the coast of Brazil has ID’ed a new cousin to crabs and lobsters, nine new jellyfish, and two gigantic single-celled organisms visible to the naked eye. Reading time 3 ...

Bridget Plude watched amoeba cells crawl forward through a microscope. Then, she noticed little structures trailing out behind them and wondered what they were. It was the start of a journey that led ...

A recent study by Ruibao Li and Jennah Dharamshi published in Nature may help us understand the beginnings of animal evolution billions of years ago. These findings are the result of a collaboration ...