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

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

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

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

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

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

When 26-year-old Danielle Wilbanks looks at the cost of living, the student loans she’s still carrying and a career path reshaped by the pandemic, she feels like she’s standing on shifting ground.

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 ...

On the first Sunday of November, when the majority of the United States set their clocks an hour earlier, the resulting ...

When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned its samples from the asteroid Bennu in late 2023, it revealed a surprising find: ...

The stingrays — which arrived in December 2023 — are among roughly 150 species in the district's marine biology lab. Another recent addition to the lab's menagerie is a shoal of lined seahorses. The ...