It’s very easy to lose a single photon. That’s why it’s so impressive that photosynthetic systems rarely do. In contrast to photovoltaic cells, which currently top out at around 30 percent efficiency, ...

Sport junkie or couch potato? Always on time or often late? The animal kingdom, too, is home to a range of personalities, each with its own lifestyle. Biologists report on a surprising discovery: even ...

Life’s leap from single-celled to multicellular organisms marks a pivotal moment in evolutionary history. This transformation laid the foundation for the complex life forms we see today. By studying ...

The proteins needed to create limb progenitor cells are marked with different colors under a microscope. Credit: Yuji Atsuta/Tabin lab How do organisms form limbs in the womb? Scientists have been ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms from the cells of a dead organism ...

BEAUTY OF LIFE: This computer-generated image illustrating how organisms grow proportionally represents only a tiny portion of image E on the following page. Could it be that the way organisms ...

Long before the appearance of plants or animals, primitive multicellular organisms had developed an effective strategy to survive arsenic, a notoriously deadly poison. A recent study reveals that ...

Jaz Millar's research on glacier surface ecosystems and salt pan ecosystems were funded by the Natural Environmental Research Council and the Nuffield Science Bursary respectively. In the infamous ...

Wherever we look on Earth – even in the most inhospitable places – we find life. But how do organisms manage to survive such difficult conditions? Lorna Dougan explains how physicists are helping to ...

A world in warming, under most circumstances, tipping toward deep cooling does seem counterintuitive; yet, Earth's geological record is replete with such episodes when rising greenhouse gases were ...