Growing tissues can crack, break, and dissociate to form structures that can later withstand immense forces.

Professor Tim Coulson describes evolution as a gradual process that alters living organisms over generations. The mechanism ...

Some single-celled organisms are known to transition to multicellularity during their lifetimes, usually either by cloning themselves or when many similar cells come together to form a larger ...

Compared to previous theories, the current research emphasizes the complexity of the biological and chemical processes that brought about life.

Scientists discover QT45, a self-replicating RNA molecule, offering insights into the origins of life on Earth.

It’s also worth noting that antibiotics can kill off gut microbes, which is why it’s important to use them only when they’re ...

Our planet was once a harsh, alien, icy world. Yet this deep freeze may have shaped you, me and all life on Earth ...

Knowing which genes are responsible for the transformations could help with developing antifungal treatments, and may have other pharmaceutical and industrial applications.

Life is ubiquitous on Earth and appears in a diversity of forms. But what characteristics do organisms have? What makes them alive? This activity explores that question. In the first part of the ...

The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) forms part of an international consortium that is preparing the Tree of Sex project, an ambitious initiative aimed at decoding the evolutionary complexity ...

Why, then, would you choose to have sex with another organism, a process that immediately cuts your genetic legacy by half? One answer is that sex, in which genes are mixed and reshuffled, gets rid of ...