A recent study presents a new way to understand life by describing it as a cascade of machines producing machines, spanning from molecular to biosphere levels. What is life? This question remains the ...

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

There are at least four fundamental problems with the theory of evolution as an answer to the origins and complexity of life ...

A complex molecular machine, the spliceosome, ensures that the genetic information from the genome, after being transcribed into mRNA precursors, is correctly assembled into mature mRNA. Splicing is a ...

After more than two decades of analysis, researchers from Montana State University have finally revealed how three microbes ...

The Nature of Viruses Viruses are microscopic entities that require a host's cellular machinery to replicate. Unlike bacteria ...

Scientists have long believed they understood how life’s genetic code evolved, but new research upends that assumption. By ...

"I would say that any modern biologist would, or should, say that birds are reptiles," Martin Stervander, an evolutionary ...

Evolution is complex and difficult to study, but TraitTrainR, a new software package developed by the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, offers researchers a better way to simulate how ...

Giant clams, some of the largest mollusks on Earth, have long fascinated scientists. These impressive creatures can grow up ...

If you're afraid of using all-out colour, then building on a neutral living room base is the way to go,' advises Emma from Kelling Designs. 'By opting for living room colour schemes in a base of beige ...