Under a microscope, the newly described organism Solarion looks less like a cell and more like a tiny star, its body ringed ...

The degree of hierarchical structure of organisms-the number of levels of nesting of lower-level entities within higher-level individuals-has apparently increased a number of times in the history of ...

He imaginative power of nature certainly could not have produced anything more flexible than the cell to account for every complex morphology of the organic world. In the same way that the seven notes ...

One of the central questions in biology is how life first evolved from inanimate matter, known as abiogenesis. It has long been hypothesized that the origin of life on Earth involved the evolution of ...

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(Nanowerk Spotlight) Atoms form molecules or crystals using their outermost electrons through interactions between single elements or multiple elements. Various molecules and crystals can assemble in ...

Many viruses, including that perennial winter affliction, the influenza virus, are protected by a lipid membrane on loan from the host cell. The fusion proteins on the surface of the membrane are ...

Editor's Note: This article was first published at ScienceNordic. Scientists are increasingly interested in the prospect of solving a range of fundamental problems facing our civilisation by designing ...