Long known as a messenger within cells, RNA is increasingly seen as life’s molecular communication system—even between ...

Fossil evidence of how the earliest life on Earth came to be is hard to come by. But scientists have come up with a few ...

Footage from the Tiangong space station shows Shenzhou 18 crew members — commander Ye Guangfu and cremates Li Cong and Li Guangsu — engaged in research on the adaptability of anaerobic archaea. The ...

A recent study suggests that by the Neoproterozoic period, distinct lineages of amoebae, as well as the ancestors of plants, ...

By Gerardo Sanchez, Oct. 8, 2024 Cal Poly Pomona was one recipient of a $22 million biotechnology grant funded by the National Science Foundation, which allows the university to create a facility and ...

This is the first time this has been achieved outside the realm of biology ... Scientists have previously observed molecular-scale motors in primitive bacteria, such as archaea, which have fin-like ...

"There were dozens of them in our search grid," said Brendon Baillod, the shipwreck hunter who first noticed them in ... their diversity and adaptability; Archaea, noted for their ability to ...

1 Genome Evolution and Ecology Group, Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria 2 Vienna Doctoral School of Ecology and Evolution, University of Vienna, ...