Scientists found the last universal common ancestor for all life on Earth
Four billion years ago, Earth was violent, hot, and unstable. Yet new research suggests that by then, life…
You’ll Never Guess What Took First Place at the Royal Society’s Photo Competition
Ever wonder what spider silk looks like up close? Like, really up close? The winner of this year’s Royal Society…
Study Warns of Major Toll ‘Chronic Stress’ Could Be Taking On Humans
Humans may be biologically unequipped to handle the relentless pace and pressures of modern life, a new study…
Chernobyl nuclear fungus may shield astronauts from radiation in space
Life has a strange way of thriving in the most extreme places. A peculiar dark-black fungus at the…
How Human Hand Is An Organ Of Consciousness, Not Just Of Labour
The fossil hand of Paranthropus boisei and modern neuroscience challenge the old idea that labour created the human…
How Genes Have Harnessed Physics to Grow Living Things
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Sip a glass of wine, and you will…
Artificial womb in glass tank could save premature babies
A Netherlands-based startup, Aqua Womb, is exploring the potential of making a womb-like life support system for extremely…
Hypersonic Levitation Spinning Speeds Cell Isolation
Many of the most devastating illnesses are like black boxes to science. Most cancer deaths, for example, are…
80 million-year-old fossil of marine crocodile found in Egypt
Fossilized remains of a long-snouted crocodile-like reptile have been uncovered in Egypt’s Western Desert. Paleontologists from Mansoura University…
Moose relocated from Chubbuck neighborhood – Idaho State Journal
Moose relocated from Chubbuck neighborhood Idaho State JournalMoose tranquilized and relocated from Chubbuck neighborhood KBOIMoose on the loose! Officials remove…
The world needs a better way to share genetic information
Biology is in the middle of a transformation. Over the past five years new sequencing techniques have made…
Sperm From Older Men Have More Genetic Mutations
Human semen not only accumulates genetic mutations with age; as the percentage of sperm carrying potentially serious mutations…