In a new study published in Science, researchers from the Model-Based Evolutionary Genomics Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) and their international collaborators have ...

Biological systems, once thought too chaotic for quantum effects, may be quietly leveraging quantum mechanics to process ...

The research indicates that the limitations on the size of proteins has been a crucial trigger in the development of life ...

In that study, Pilhofer and his postdoctoral researchers Jingwei Xu and Florian Wollweber demonstrated that Lokiarchaeum ossiferum possesses certain structures also typical ... in their eukaryotic ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments ...

Only recently has the ribosome—one of the oldest molecular machines in evolutionary terms—been recognized as an active ...

This important study provides solid evidence that glucosylceramide synthase (GlcT), a rate-limiting enzyme for glycosphingolipid (GSL) production, plays a role in the differentiation of intestinal ...

The average male height varies across the world. The average male is about 5 feet 9 inches tall in the United States. Factors like genetics, nutrition, and health conditions can affect where you ...

Jump to insight Children, on average, get their first phones at 11.6 years old. By age 15, almost all children have a cell phone. Jump to insight Over half (62.79%) of the world's internet traffic ...

In fact, a commonly accepted definition of a bull market is one that is trading above its 200-day moving average—and the inverse is true for a bear market. Moving averages are a staple of ...