“Many people equate plants with photosynthesis, yet Balanophora illustrates that being a plant does not require being green,” ...

Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

A groundbreaking experiment transforms skin cells into egg-like cells, offering hope for infertility treatments amidst ...

One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they ...

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run in a world powered purely by imagination ...

A growing number of new studies have found that, at least for some cells, death isn’t the end, but the beginning of something wholly unexpected.

For nearly a century, biologists have relied on a simple rule to predict how microbes grow when food is scarce, a rule that ...

In a major policy reversal, the Trump administration has ordered the CDC to cease all scientific research involving primates, ...

Scientists are building experimental computers from living human brain cells and testing how they learn and adapt.

The most exciting rock known to science is a school-desk-sized chunk of mudstone currently stuck on Mars. Formed from fine, ...

A plant that looks like a fungus, lives like a parasite, and clones itself in the dark—Balanophora may be one of evolution’s ...

Ultracold atoms have successfully mimicked a fundamental quantum effect normally found in electronic circuits.