Engineering microbes to soak up more carbon, boost crop yields and restore former farmland is appealing. But synthetic ...

In most narratives, the story of evolution is the story of organisms emerging from the ocean and eventually populating the ...

A machine-learning breakthrough could lift the veil on Earth’s early history—and supercharge the search for alien life ...

Cities grow, adapt, and consume resources much like living organisms. Their patterns reveal systems of metabolism, ...

Cancer research, drug safety testing and ageing biology may all gain a major boost from a new fluorescent sensor developed at ...

A breakthrough live-cell sensor makes DNA repair visible as it happens, unlocking new possibilities in biology and medicine.

As our evolution slows and industrialization and technology accelerates, a growing body of research suggests that human ...

Researchers at the Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI), Kanazawa University, have developed a breakthrough method for quantitative imaging of ATP levels inside living cells. The study, published ...

Last month, Brown was named the 2025 recipient of MSU’s Ralph E. Powe Research Excellence Award, the university’s highest ...

Researchers have discovered chemical traces of life in rocks older than 3.3 billion years, offering a rare look at Earth’s ...

New research challenges the long-standing idea that most fixed genetic mutations are neutral. For many years, scientists studying evolution have believed that most genetic changes influencing how ...