Picture this: you’re a scientist digging near the Amazon rainforest, and you pull a jawbone out of the ground that looks so ...

Around 200 million animals are used in lab research around the world each year. Organoids may one day replace them.

A new review study explains that extremophiles have revolutionized medicine, and are invaluable allies in the fight against climate change.

Chimpanzee experiments suggest early humans were likely fascinated by crystals because of their unique transparency and ...

Inside the growing scientific quest to understand what creatures with the extraordinary ability to defy the ravages of time ...

The great Mormon butterfly is one in every 10,000 butterflies who is half male and half female. Scientists explained this ...

A near-impenetrable plateau in Central Africa allowed elephants to hide from humans for years. The same landscape could also be their savior.

DNA is revealing that many animals once thought to be a single species may actually be several hidden ones. But research on ...

Evolutionary theory has revolutionized the way we understand humans – yet more than a century after Darwin's ideas reshaped biology, the female form of our species remains largely a mystery.

A mysterious form of plague that spread across Eurasia thousands of years before the Black Death has finally revealed a crucial clue. Scientists analyzing ancient DNA discovered the bacterium Yersinia ...

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Scientists are trying to understand how complex life emerged on Earth about 2 billion years ago. Our microbial ancestors could be the key.