A single-celled microbe that revels in Earth's most hostile salt lakes has the remarkable ability to transform its mote of a ...

Found in a mudflat off the coast of Oregon, this organism’s electricity-conducting abilities could make it ideal for ...

Scientists have identified a novel species of bacteria that acts as electrical wiring, potentially ushering in a new era of ...

All bacteria exist as single cells at some point in their lives – except for one kind, known as multicellular magnetotactic ...

Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the time of ...

Benedict and Weltfish argued that while people did, indeed, differ physically, those differences were meaningless in that all ...

First, scientists began looking to culture rather than biology as the driver of differences among groups ... were therefore useless for understanding how organisms evolved. A new tool, what scientists ...

Until now, it’s been very hard for scientists to establish a detailed timeline of the early evolution of bacteria.

Electron microscopy image and cartoon of a MMB consortium ... PLOS Biology 2024 In biology, obligate means that an organism requires something for survival. In this case, it means that single cells of ...

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Today we're looking at where they stack up against each other and figuring out why the largest organism on Earth appears no bigger than a few mushroom caps coming out of the dirt. Vietnam Offers ...

Another week, another set of editorial cartoons to break up the day. Here’s what we published in the Calgary Herald this past week.