The earliest cells harnessed energy through geochemical reactions, a process that LMU researchers have now successfully ...

University of Calgary researchers have discovered that all living organisms emit extremely faint light undetectable to the ...

Greek is one of the oldest recorded living languages of the world, with a truly rich history that spans over 3,000 years.

A giant fungus, Armillaria ostoyae, lives beneath Oregon's Blue Mountains. This single organism spans over 2,300 acres. It ...

Scientists have decoded the atomic structure of Photosystem I from a 3-billion-year-old cyanobacteria lineage, offering a unique look at early oxygen-producing photosynthesis. The ancient nanodevice, ...

Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a 506 million-year-old tiny three-eyed predator nicknamed the “sea moth,” according to a new study.

An international genomics study has revealed that early Asians undertook humanity's longest known prehistoric migration. These early humans, who roamed the earth over 100,000 years ago, are believed ...

If you want to know the age of a bird, you might be surprised to know that there are no good ways to figure it out, at best ...

As global temperatures continue to rise, scientists have long worried that mountain species are on an "extinction ...

The genomes of long-living, big-brained mammal species reveal that they carry more copies of immunity genes. Experts ...

The genome structure—how genes are organized within DNA sequences in an organism—is fundamental to the processes and ...