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The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

Adam Sibley, a post-doctoral student at Oregon State University, led a team of researchers to map the extent of scorching across the Pacific Northwest.

Dr. Evan Lampert, a University of North Georgia (UNG) professor of biology, and four of his students recently published an article on the different responses of two caterpillar species to plant ...

A new University of California San Diego School of Medicine study offers a unified biological model to explain how genetic ...

The harpy eagle is one of the most extreme predators on the planet — a raptor so powerful it can drag a full-grown monkey or sloth straight off a branch. Its talons are the size of a grizzly bear’s ...

When scientists sequenced the first Neanderthal genomes, they did not just resurrect a lost branch of the human family tree, ...

Exploring how passion, people, and culture can help engineers turn specialization into meaningful, fulfilling careers.

Scientists reveal the existence of a new species of Colombian porcupine, Coendou vossi, that remained hidden for decades in ...

The microbe Pyrodictium abyssi is an archaeon—a member of what's known as the third domain of life—and an extremophile. It ...

Introduction On Nov. 11, the Black Students Association (BSA) organized a meeting with Cynthia Adinortey, a decorated ...

( Nanowerk News) Engineers have designed robots that crawl, swim, fly and even slither like a snake, but no robot can hold a ...