At a certain point in Earth’s distant past, the planet’s assortment of organic molecules and compounds aligned to create the ...

A light microscopy image shows the marine algae Braarudosphaera bigelowii, which is a potentially large evolutionary step. This algae absorbed a bacterium called UCYN-A and formed a new organelle ...

Lincoln's S. Kathleen Lyons is providing a new framework—Earth system engineering—for examining how organisms, including humans, have fundamentally altered ecosystems on a global scale across hundreds ...

Most forms of life cannot survive extreme environmental conditions, like excessive temperatures. Likewise, the significant majority of species on our planet have a set lifespan and cannot exist past a ...

On the slope of a Utah mountain, lives the world's oldest living organism. It has lived there for thousands of years, living in harmony with the natural world around it, but today it is being slowly ...

What are Living Modified Organisms (LMOs)? Living Modified Organisms (LMOs) are organisms whose genetic material has been altered using modern biotechnology techniques, such as genetic engineering.

pt. 1. Conceptual tools and methods. 1. The basics of ichnology ; 2. Taxonomy of trace fossils ; 3. Paleobiology of trace fossils ; 4. The ichnofacies model ; 5. The ...

DNA molecules take time to completely disappear in the aquatic environment. That means eDNA might come from organisms living there now—or from ones that disappeared weeks ago. However, RNA breaks down ...

Now, in a new study published today in Cell, researchers from Prof. Ido Amit's lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science have managed for the first time to develop a method for tracking and measuring ...

An Inland Empire city has approved a development project 450 feet away from the third oldest known living organism in the world — a sprawling, shrub-like oak tree that is more than 13,000 years old.

Walls are necessary but lifeless elements of buildings. They give structure and protection but don’t really do much else. A group of researchers wants to change that. They want to “tattoo” walls with ...