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

Scientists trace the origins of human kissing back over 20 million years to ancient apes who first showed gentle ...

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

It may look alien, but this protist could tell us about our origins right here on Earth.

In the dim waters off the Japanese coast, scientists have stumbled upon something that shouldn’t exist. Or at least not by ...

A major study shows complex cells evolved gradually in an oxygen-poor world, challenging long-held assumptions about life’s ...

Most days you move through the world without thinking about the invisible creatures that surround you. Yet one of them, a tiny marine organism called Solarion arienae, is quietly reshaping what you ...

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 ...