Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms from the cells of a ...

The being in question is a microbe called Sukunaarchaeum mirabile. Preliminary research says it stretches the definition of ...

What may be the most thorough study ever of a single organism has produced a beta code for life’s essential subroutines, and shown that even the simplest creatures are more complex than ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have revealed the structure of a key protein involved in ...

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The structure that you know should be there is all of a sudden found by the computer algorithm,” Burchett said. “There was no other known method that was well suited to this problem for our ...

A brainless, single-celled organism with a knack for finding food is helping astronomers study the largest, most mysterious structure in the universe — the cosmic web. But first, things could ...