Researchers found LUCA, our earliest common ancestor, lived 4.2 billion years ago. It had a complex biology, affecting its ...

Enrique M Muro, Fernando J Ballesteros, Bartolo Luque, and Jordi Bascompte, The emergence of eukaryotes as an evolutionary algorithmic phase transition, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...

These bacteria, archaea, and viruses are slowly sequestering heavy metals and eating their way through some of the worst compounds lingering in the mud. The silver lining of the slo-mo ...

A team of Rice University researchers has developed a new way to control light interactions using a specially engineered structure called a 3D photonic-crystal cavity. Their work, published in the ...

A team of astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute, working with one colleague from the University of St Andrews' Center for Exoplanet Science and another from the European Southern ...

Thousands of Sikhs celebrate Vaisakhi in Pakistan, with 6,500 Indian pilgrims visiting holy sites across the country.

Mindy Weisberger’s book, Rise of the Zombie Bugs, explores the sophisticated—and macabre—relationships between zombifying parasites and their hosts.