A group of German scientists tested the effects of a more acidic ocean on sharks’ teeth and found that future generations of ...

Scientists have successfully extracted the DNA of ancient mummified cheetahs discovered in a cave in Saudi Arabia. This is ...

Brine pools, extremely salty, oxygen-free underwater lakes, are lethal to most marine life but teem with resilient microbes.

Gut microbiome researcher Purna C. Kashyap, MBBS, shares the latest insights on the role of probiotics, disorders of the ...

BP is cutting back on energy transition projects. Divestments are helping to reduce net debt. The company's financial outlook ...

A new study finds that people whose gut microbiomes produce a lot of methane are able to unlock extra energy from a ...

All life shares a single root buried deep in Earth’s past. Its name? Asgard, and it rewrites what we thought we knew.

Scientists have identified a microbe capable of interpreting a single piece of genetic code in two completely different ways.

The origin of eukaryotes traced from Asgard archaea, revealing how complex cells evolved and led to animals, plants and ...

Biologists are confronting a problem they thought they had mostly solved: what, exactly, counts as life. A wave of ...

Nucleosomes are barriers to RNA Polymerase II (Pol II) transcribing along gene bodies in eukaryotes. We found that a fragile “tailless nucleosome” could be generated to resolve the Pol II pausing ...

Researchers discover a unique genetic code in Antarctic archaea that encodes a rare amino acid, potentially advancing protein ...