Over the past half century, researchers have established that birds evolved from dinosaurs: specifically, the theropods, the ...

Transition Metal Solutions is applying a special cocktail to coax microbes into unlocking more copper from ore.

A bacterial defense system called SPARDA employs kamikaze-like tactics to protect cells and could be useful in future ...

Taking images of tiny structures within cells is tricky business. One technique, cryogenic electron tomography (cryoET), shoots electrons through a frozen sample. The images formed by the electrons ...

MicroRNAs, whose discovery was recognized with the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, are central regulators of gene ...

A stretch of viral DNA in the mouse genome gives cells in early-stage embryos the potential to become almost any cell type in ...

A genomic atlas of Nematostella vectensis reveals how primitive animals created multiple cell types millions of years ago, ...