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

The transition from simple chemistry to the complex biology of molecules that gave rise to life is a puzzle that scientists ...

A combination of two classical biological laws, the global constraint principle delves deeper into complex biological ...

Elective egg freezing, once largely a medical necessity, has gradually transformed into a planned step in long-term career ...

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

Sikkim Sundari is also known as the “Glasshouse Plant” due to its unique appearance. For 30 years, it survives as a small rosette of leaves, storing energy in harsh alpine conditions marked by ...

Humans have it. So does Drosophila. But not yeast. That "it" is a small pause at the start of gene activity—a brief molecular halt that may have helped life evolve from simple cells to complex animals ...

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has ...

Far below the ice and storms of the high north, scientists have pinpointed the deepest known Arctic vent system and found it bursting with organisms that should not, by any intuitive measure, be able ...

Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of “The Serviceberry,” offers ideas rooted in nature for creating sharing economies as a way to ...

For people with sensory sensitivities, holiday gatherings can trigger stress and burnout, not joy. Mental health experts ...

Four billion years ago, Earth was violent, hot, and unstable. Yet new research suggests that by then, life had already ...