Life on Earth began in a world of volcanic eruptions, violent storms, and a toxic atmosphere. Yet somehow, from this chaos, ...

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

In Earth's fossil record, soft-bodied organisms like jellyfish rarely stand the test of time. What's more, it's hard for any ...

A study has cast doubt on the idea that Jupiter's moon Europa, where NASA has sent a spacecraft, could have conditions to ...

Humans are captivated by the idea of finding life elsewhere in the universe – and even more by the idea that life, if found, ...

Europa’s buried ocean has made it one of the most exciting places to search for life beyond Earth. However, new calculations suggest its seafloor may be calm, cold, and largely inactive, with little ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have identified the genes that allow an organism to switch between living as single ...

With copper-blue blood prized by modern medicine and a body plan older than dinosaurs, the horseshoe crab reveals how ancient ...

Living cells pay a hidden energy price not just to run chemical reactions, but to keep them on track and block all the ...

Biologists are confronting a problem they thought they had mostly solved: what, exactly, counts as life. A wave of ...