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

Glossary states sex is not fixed, binary The primary teaching hospital of Boston University’s medical school, recently updated its “Glossary for Culture Transformation” to include dozens ...

Multicellularity is one of the most profound phenomena in biology, and relies on the ability of a single cell to reorganize itself into a complex organism. It underpins the diversity in the animal ...

NEW YORK — In one of his first acts in office on Thursday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani revoked the city’s implementation of an antisemitism definition that includes some forms of Israel ...

Did you know that every living thing on Earth, from the tiniest bacteria to the massive blue whale, follows the same fundamental rules of life? This incredible study of living organisms is called ...

Lewy body diseases -- Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies -- should be defined as neuronal alpha-synuclein disease, not as clinical syndromes, a new position paper proposed. "Parkinson's ...

Dictionary.com has announced its 2025 Word of the Year, and if you're not up to speed on this year's slang, you may be puzzled by the outcome. The online dictionary announced on Oct. 29 that its Word ...

Doris Lin is an animal rights attorney and the Director of Legal and Government Affairs for the Animal Protection League of New Jersey. Her focuses as an expert writer include animal rights and ...

Several round plastic containers rest on a surface, and each contains a small, striped frog. Juvenile Australian southern corroboree frogs at the University of Melbourne laboratories Credit: Tiffany ...