According to an alternative model of how intelligent life emerges on planets like Earth, the existence of aliens—and human ...

Since time immemorial, humanity has looked up at the night sky with the same question in mind: Are we the only inhabitants of ...

A new study proposes intelligent life is more likely to emerge than previously thought, driven by planetary conditions.

For decades, scientists assumed that life on Earth emerged through a chain of highly improbable flukes. But a new theory ...

Thermo-sensitive genic male sterility 5 (tms5) is a widely used thermo-sensitive genic male sterile (TGMS) line for two-line ...

Combining experiments in microfluidic devices and computer simulation, this study provides a valuable analysis of the relevant parameters that determine the motility of (multicellular) magnetotactic ...

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In this study we refine this line of argumentation for the globally important group of unicellular diazotrophic cyanobacteria, and pose the following two hypotheses: (i) nitrogen fixation is ...

The stem cells were created using a unicellular organism from a common ancestor predating animals ... The research highlights how early versions of these proteins were co-opted during evolution to ...

There are a significant number of words, phrases and acronyms that appear when talking about race and ethnicity which often change depending on the context of the conversation. Language is ...

Rice University bioengineers have developed a new construction kit for building custom sense-and-respond circuits in human cells. The research, published in the journal Science, represents a major ...

Prokaryotes are unicellular and lack a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles. They are generally smaller and simpler and include bacteria and archaea. Eukaryotes on the other hand are often ...