Single-celled organisms that group together can generate stronger water currents to pull in food, a benefit that may have ...

Researchers found that cooperative fluid dynamics between single-celled organisms may have driven the evolution of ...

A new study led by researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at the Institute of Science, Tokyo, has uncovered a ...

In 2007, a team led by Stanford geobiologist Kevin Boyce found that carbon isotopes in the fossils resembled those of fungi — ...

The physics of how a quirky pond organism filters the water for food provides new insights into a possible driver of early evolution.

About 4 billion years ago, Earth began to show signs of the conditions that allowed the first cells to take hold and populate ...

Prototaxites fossils continue to divide scientists. These 400-million-year-old structures may belong to a completely extinct ...

This important study shows, for the first time, the structure and snapshots of the dynamics of the full-length soluble Angiotensin-I converting enzyme dimer. The combination of structural and ...

For more than a decade, a robotic explorer has been traveling across Mars, quietly collecting clues about a time when the Red ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet.

He called the organism Prototaxites, meaning “first conifer.” The name stuck, even though the fossil didn’t quite match any ...

Sucralose, an artificial sweetener that’s often found in low- and no-calorie sweeteners and diet drinks, boosted feelings of ...