These bacteria don’t eat food or breathe air like we do. All they need is to complete a circuit; that’s enough for them to ...

Life may be far more luminous than it appears. Researchers from the University of Calgary, working alongside the National ...

From the deep sea to the shallow seafloor, researchers are uncovering unusual sugars that do something extraordinary to ...

Paris summit warns about “mirror life.” Scientists call for early limits on mirror bacteria that could evade defenses and ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neurological disease characterized by nerve damage and consequent impairments in vision, ...

Toenail and fingernail fungus is more than a cosmetic issue. For many people, it becomes a long-term problem that affects ...

Sleep may have evolved to help reduce DNA damage in nerve cells long before they became centralized in the brain, a study ...

Researchers have identified a previously unknown giant virus that may offer new insight into how complex life first evolved.

The origin of life on Earth becomes even more fascinating and complex as we peer into the mysterious world of viruses.

Researchers at Utah State University revealed new details about CRISPR immune system defenses, such as Cas12a3 systems, that ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), with collaborators from the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), have discovered how a key protein in the tuberculosis bacterium helps ...

Cell division is an essential process for all life on earth, yet the exact mechanisms by which cells divide during early ...