Just like every other creature, bacteria have evolved creative ways of getting around. Sometimes this is easy, like swimming ...

Information pervades the universe, yet means nothing. Meaning emerged when matter organized into systems that could ...

Scientists have uncovered a new way embryonic cells divide when conventional mechanisms fail. Cell division underpins all ...

BOCA RATON — A Verizon cell phone tower will soon be coming to the Polo Club, but you will need excellent eyesight to see it. And even then, it won't be easy to spot. That is because it will be hidden ...

David Toews works for Pennsylvania State University. He receives funding from The National Science Foundation. People typically think about evolution as a linear process where, within a species, the ...

We always say that they don't make them like they used to when it comes to cars. Well, they don't test them like they used to, either. We saw Volvo dropping its XC90 from a crane. Now we get to see ...

Professor Indraneel Mittra and his team show that DNA fragments from dying cells function as agents of horizontal gene transfer in mammalian cells. For decades, scientists have known that bacteria can ...

Brain cells are like tiny trees. They have an intricate web of roots that take in signals and a trunk that passes these signals to branches dotted with hubs called synapses, where the messages are ...

Macrophages—or “big eaters”—are exactly what they sound like. These immune cells roam our bodies hunting down infections, cancers, or injuries. When they detect a target, the cells release a calvary ...

An updated evolutionary model shows that living systems evolve in a split-and-hit-the-gas dynamic, where new lineages appear in sudden bursts rather than during a long marathon of gradual changes.

Evolutionary biologist Telford explores in this captivating debut history how the diversity of life on Earth came to be. To unravel this complex story, Telford turns to life’s evolutionary tree—the ...