In a boiling corner of northern California, a single-celled creature is quietly rewriting the rules for how hot complex life ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

The cells of all animals—including humans—are characterized by their ability to adhere particularly well to surfaces in their ...

A tiny amoeba has broken a pretty big record. The newly discovered species of single-celled organism can divide and reproduce ...

Prokaryotes, which have no distinct nucleus, are still the reigning champs of biological toughness, as they can persist in ...

Leading synthetic biologists have shared hard-won lessons from their decade-long quest to build the world's first synthetic ...

At a steaming creek in California’s Lassen Volcanic National Park, a tiny amoeba just raised the heat ceiling for complex ...

Long before plants and animals existed, Earth was dominated by microscopic organisms called prokaryotes. They lived simple, single-celled lives, soaking up nutrients in the oceans billions of years ...

Complex life, eukaryotes, traces its origins to a shared ancestor among the Asgard archaea, reshaping our understanding of ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience.View full ...

The sun has just set on a quiet mudflat in Australia’s Northern Territory; it’ll set again in another 19 hours. A young moon looms large over the desolate landscape. No animals scurry in the waning ...

Since the bacterial-origin CRISPR-Cas system rose to popularity as a genome editing tool, scientists have wondered whether other genome editors exist in nature. Now, two independent research teams ...