The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has identified the earliest supernova on record, according to a statement released ...

At a steaming creek in California’s Lassen Volcanic National Park, a tiny amoeba just raised the heat ceiling for complex ...

Scientists have found a new microorganism, the “fire amoeba,” thriving in the scalding geothermal waters of a national park.

An ocean-mining company has funded some of the most comprehensive scientific studies to date, and peer-reviewed results have ...

Researchers at Helmholtz Munich, the Technical University of Munich and the LMU University Hospital Munich uncovered a mechanism that protects nerve cells from premature cell death, known as ...

AstraZeneca advances its ambition to redefine hematology care with new data from its diverse pipeline and portfolio at the 67th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition, ...

In a step toward better understanding how the ocean sequesters carbon, new findings from UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators challenge the current view of how carbon dioxide is "fixed" in ...

Scientists uncover a basic principle that shows how higher nutrient levels change the pace of cell growth, revealing a ...

When you picture a single cell, you probably imagine something super tiny that you had to look at through a microscope. But, there are some huge exceptions to this rule. And we really do mean huge!

Life’s fundamental structure is the cell, and so the main things that a cell does — processing biomolecules, growing, replicating its genetic material and producing a new body — are considered ...