Ernesto Lasso de la Vega pops up from the murky waters of the Manatee River, waving a large green mussel in the air. After ...

From chemical building blocks, scientists have created synthetic cells that have most of the hallmarks of life.

In humans, that supply dwindles until menopause, when it goes bankrupt. Over the past two decades, scientists have identified ...

Deep inside the cloud forests of Mexico, certain patches of bark and rotting wood begin to glow a faint, ghostly green once ...

TU Darmstadt has once again performed very well in the international competition for research funding: three researchers have been awarded Proof of Concept Grants by the European Research Council (ERC ...

We stand today in the midst of a striking paradox. Capitalist production systems, carefully curated lives on social media ...

The Chernobyl exclusion zone may be off-limits to humans, but that doesn't mean every form of life finds the conditions ...

Created from 150 components, including lipids, ribosomes, enzymes, and DNA, in the lab. At the core of the design are 36 ...

Many times, scientists embark on a study looking for evidence for a particular hypothesis, and in the process, they come across something totally unexpected and different from their original purpose.

A sea of scientists is genetically cataloging marine invertebrates and algae along the Golden State’s coast.

The mechanical process of cell division exerts powerful, if microscopic, forces. How do the molecular machines that power it ...

Line up the brains of a fish, bird and a mammal, and something unexpected comes up. You do not see three different answers to the problem of making sense of the world. You see one answer, tilted three ...