Bioinformatics and microbial taxonomy experts introduce the challenges of defining bacterial species in an era of rapidly ...

As eukaryotic cells started to form, eukaryotic traits may have emerged in early cells about one billion years before the ...

With protruding appendages that each end in an orb, Solarion arienae vaguely resembles a cartoon Sun or a retrofuturistic ...

Most days you move through the world without thinking about the invisible creatures that surround you. Yet one of them, a ...

A study led by Oxford University argues that kissing evolved in the common ancestors of humans and apes, and that our extinct human relatives probably did it too ...

The deadly decline of Britain's native oak trees may be driven by an unexpected accomplice: their own smell. Scientists have discovered that trees affected by acute oak decline (AOD) emit distinct ...

Scientists have long known that bacteria come in many shapes and sizes, but understanding what those differences mean has ...

Using termite and cockroach genomes, researchers built phylogenetic trees from transposons, paving a new way to differentiate ...

The deadly decline of Britain’s native oak trees may be driven by an unexpected accomplice: their own smell. Scientists have discovered that trees affected by Acute Oak Decline (AOD) emit distinct ...

Scientists have long known that bacteria come in many shapes and sizes, but understanding what those differences mean has ...