Many biological functions are regulated by the switching on and off of mechanisms triggered by the matching of a keyhole ...

Some bacteria can take a punch that would crush a submarine. In a new set of impact tests, one desert microbe, Deinococcus ...

A new review published in Energy & Environment Nexus examines how innovative geometric designs of tubular solid oxide fuel cells could accelerate the transition to cleaner and more efficient energy ...

Inside each of your cells lies a nucleus, its master command center. Protected inside each nucleus are your chromosomes, ...

A famously resilient bacterium may be tough enough to survive one of the most violent events imaginable on Mars. In ...

The extremophile bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans can survive the pressures developed during ejection from Mars as a result of massive asteroid impact. According to the authors, microorganisms can ...

A new review published in Energy & Environment Nexus examines how innovative geometric designs of tubular solid oxide fuel cells could accelerate the ...

Every second, hundreds to thousands of molecules move through thousands of nuclear pores in each of your cells. A new high-definition view reveals the machine in action.

Ribosomes are the components of cells that read RNA and build proteins. Without the ribosome, the chemistry of life would ...

A bacterium famous for shrugging off extreme radiation has now survived the violent shock of a simulated asteroid impact, adding hard experimental evidence to the idea that microbes could travel ...

The idea that life can spread from world to world dates as far back as ancient Greece and the philosopher Anaxagoras.