Living in the Dead Sea would be a very unpleasant experience for most creatures. With salt concentration above 30% and ...

Living in the Dead Sea would be a very unpleasant experience for most creatures. With salt concentration above 30% and ...

Over the last few decades, physical principles have been proposed to explain some biological processes and functions. However ...

Human biology was forged across millions of years of dietary variety. No one food can even come close to honoring that.

The microbe Haloarcula marismortui swims by growing a unique, reinforced outer sheath around its tail, providing essential ...

Somewhere beneath the frozen soils of the Arctic, life has been waiting patiently for millennia. Long before the rise of ...

Cravings for a late-night snake could impact the gut microbiome in adults with prediabetes. The gut microbiome is the ...

From Antarctic deserts to the human gut, scientists are uncovering hidden microbial worlds that could reshape medicine, ...

In the neverending battle against bacterial infections, scientists have found an unlikely ally: the long-extinct Neanderthals. Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania have tapped into the ...

Stored in an open-air warehouse in tropical Darwin, Australia, are trays of cylindrical rock cores drilled decades ago by ...

The Illustrated Story of Life, biologist Christian Sardet invites readers on a vivid journey to appreciate the origin and ...

I’m revisiting it due to increasing interest — and confusion — around gender politics. While one’s gender can be as fluid as our culture is diverse, biological sex isn’t. Eukaryotes like us are born ...