Under a microscope, the newly described organism Solarion looks less like a cell and more like a tiny star, its body ringed ...

And so, as I do every year since they stopped paying me to write a dedicated piece on the subject, I’m devoting column space ...

In the international nomination Discovery ("Discovery") The winner was Valery Fokin, a professor at the University of Southern California. He received the award for inventing the reaction that defined ...

The biological conception of plant life, for centuries relegated to a secondary plane compared to animal dynamism, has ...

Life has a way of bouncing back, even after catastrophic events like forest fires or volcanic eruptions. While nature's ...

British biologist Merlin Sheldrake—renowned for his scientifically rigorous and lyrical explorations of fungal networks and interconnected life—is this year’s featured author for The Humanities ...

The renewal announcement came during a press presentation by HBO and HBO Max Content chairman and CEO Casey Bloys on Thursday in New York. Bloys also announced that fellow “Game of Thrones” prequel ...

Humans have it. So does Drosophila. But not yeast. That "it" is a small pause at the start of gene activity—a brief molecular halt that may have helped life evolve from simple cells to complex animals ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

HBO's next George R.R. Martin adaptation—which has already been renewed for a second season—takes us back to Westeros starting January 18. Reading time 2 minutes The lanky guy is Ser Duncan the ...

Though the Game of Thrones franchise is now endemic to our culture, the success of the original fantasy epic wasn’t always so assured. One can imagine HBO execs’ mounting concern in the early days of ...

Scientists have discovered that complex life began evolving much earlier than traditional models suggested. Using an expanded ...