Analysis of hospital samples dating back to the 1970s has revealed how Acinetobacter baumannii—a notoriously stubborn ...

While the official world record for the fastest spider is held by the Moroccan flic-flac spider ( Cebrennus rechenbergi ), ...

Scientists have created a cell from scratch and believe they can engineer it, which would be a medical phenomenon.

The Multi-Sensory Convergence Ladder: As signals ascend deeper into the fish’s forebrain, specifically into a structure called the pallium, single-sense neurons give way to multi-sensory cells. This ...

What do you call an organism with no evolutionary ancestors? SpudCell, apparently ...

Line up the brains of a fish, bird and a mammal, and something unexpected comes up. You do not see three different answers to the problem of making sense of the world. You see one answer, tilted three ...

The human-made cells show many hallmarks of life, but they can't make all their necessary internal structures or divide for ...

A tiny zebrafish, separated from us by more than 400 million years of evolution, sorts and then combines its senses in the ...

What makes something alive? We simply don't know, but synthetic biologists are a step closer to providing an answer thanks to ...

A genomic analysis of historical and modern bacterial samples showed how Acinetobacter baumannii accumulated antibiotic ...

Decades-old hospital samples have helped University of East Anglia (UEA) researchers uncover how a deadly ...

In northern Australia, a newly described “ballista spider” appears to hunt only one species: the green tree ant. Its ...