The bacterial flagellar motor is finally understood after 50 years. In its workings, columnist Natalie Wolchover finds the ...
Rare 450-million-year-old fossil, Paleocanna tentaculum, that provides a clearer link between ancient cnidarians and modern ...
NASA’s Curiosity rover has identified seven new organic compounds on the planet Mars, according to new research published in ...
How did the earliest life on Earth build complex biological machinery with so few tools? A new study explores how the ...
Nearly 100 million years ago, snakes weren’t the sleek, limbless creatures we know today—they still had hind legs and even a ...
The Jiangchuan Biota indicates that we may have misjudged the Cambrian “explosion” of complex life.