The new documentary “A Life Illuminated” traces the career arc of U.S. marine biologist Edie Widder, an expert on bioluminescence who’s made headlines for decades. The film documents her team’s ...

Research is shaking up how we think about evolution, suggesting there's a level of predictability influenced by genes and genetic history.

The Hudson River Park Trust – Research Alliance Scholars Program is rooted in the Park’s rich history as a 550-acre estuarine sanctuary stretching from Chambers Street to W 59th Street in Manhattan.

Blow up a long balloon and two things happen: it gets longer and it gets wider. Now imagine a living cell that inflates itself under enormous pressure and yet only grows longer, never adding width.

For more than a century, the human appendix has been written off as a biological relic, a shrunken leftover from plant-eating ancestors that serves no real purpose. That view is now outdated. A ...

There's a difference between knowing that something evolved and understanding why it stuck around. Most of the systems running your body right now weren't designed for the life you're actually living.

Scientists uncover signs of ancient microbes in a place no one expected, challenging everything we knew about life’s origins.

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The gut bacterium Bacteroides fragilis has long presented researchers with a paradox. It has been associated with colorectal cancer, yet it also lives quite happily in most healthy people. A study by ...

The research, published in Science Advances, brought together scientists from Otago and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. The team closely examined the molecular structure of Bas63, a ...

Lynn Margulis (March 5, 1938 – November 22, 2011) was an American evolutionary biologist who was the primary modern ...

The origin of the nucleus remains hotly debated among scientists, but new imaging and genomic data are shedding light on this billion-year-old mystery.