Ancient animal history is extremely difficult to reconstruct, for a number of reasons. Some of the earliest creatures in existence were soft-bodied and microscopic, leaving behind very little ...
NSF backs Nicole Buan’s three-year study mapping Methanosarcina acetivorans metabolism to understand methanogen biochemistry ...
Four University of Chicago scholars were named 2025 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for ...
An international research team led by Konrad Meister from Boise State University’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research has identified a new class ...
Wheaton College junior Tess Boyer is headed back to the D-III national championships as the conference's only representative ...
Tiny plastic particles may be quietly threatening brain health. New research suggests microplastics—now widely found in food, ...
The fossils were found in a cave with an underwater stream, where they were simply picked up from the streambed.
Malaria parasites contain tiny spinning crystals that have puzzled scientists for years. New research reveals they’re powered ...
A global analysis of more than 2,300 seawater samples from more than 20 field studies around the globe indicates that ...
These clumps of cells are a far cry from what most of us picture as a robot, but they could one day be useful due to their ...
Researchers have found hundreds of synthetic chemicals in seawater samples from the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans, ...
Today's nearly $70 billion U.S. biofuels economy is powered by two technology toolboxes. Biochemical technologies—used to produce around 17 billion gallons of ethanol annually—leverage microorganisms ...