Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.

This engineered genome will help experts tailor organisms to fit the needs of their ever-changing environments.

For decades, scientists believed that intelligent life was a rare cosmic accident. A new study challenges that idea, arguing ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

Uber Technologies has filed a lawsuit against DoorDash, accusing the online delivery firm of anticompetitive practices, ...

Genetic material DNA in a nucleus, plasmids are found in a few simple eukaryotic organisms. DNA is a single molecule, found free in the cytoplasm; additional DNA is found on one or more rings ...

Proteins' amino-acid sequences appear to guide their access to blob-like aggregates involved in many cell processes ...

Researchers have succeeded in cultivating an ultra-small bacterial strain parasitizing archaea and classified it as new species and genus of Minisyncoccus archaeiphilus. AIST researchers, in ...