The first time a play is staged, it is born, tentatively testing its limbs under the stage lights. With each performance, it ...

Our analysis showed that temporal perception has even greater variation than scientists may have realised. Our perceptual ...

Tardigrades have a reputation for being nearly indestructible. These microscopic animals, often nicknamed water bears, can ...

New research is being carried out to understand how underground fungal networks influence the creation of woodland. As part ...

Ancient sea organisms survived until a sudden extinction 550 million years ago, revealing what may be the first major mass extinction.

The transition from non-life to life was very likely aided by an asteroid hitting Earth, prebiotic chemistry, molecular ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new way that giant embryonic cells divide—without relying on the classic “purse-string” ring long thought essential for splitting a cell in two. Studying ...

Geneticist and entrepreneur Adrian Woolfson argues that genome engineering and AI will let us design organisms beyond nature’s limits ...

A freshman seminar encourages students to behave differently in the world and feel more passionately about biodiversity.

The study of fossilized resin stones containing several creatures allowed scientists to recreate the interactions between ...