How one of the oldest components of the human immune system can trigger a mysterious and little-understood syndrome.

Most people think superpowers belong in comic books, but nature’s been handing them out for millions of years. Some animals ...

Developmental and synthetic biologist Michael Levin redefines what life really is, how intelligence works, and what the ...

Shape shifter: Real-life transformer robot morphs midair, flies, drives with single motor. The robot’s transformation relies on a single motor that moves a central joint, lifting its thrusters ...

Nope. This is very real. And it might be the most bonkers science story of the year. Jurassic Park, but Make It a Startup. Colossal was co-founded in 2021 by tech entrepreneur Ben Lamm and Harvard ...

Pluripotent stem cells ... of real people who lack consciousness or sentience. Thus far, we have held to a standard that requires us to treat all humans born alive as people, entitled to life ...

Scientists in Japan have created hybrid plant-animal cells, essentially making animal cells that can gain energy from sunlight like plants. The breakthrough could have major benefits for growing ...

This fluorescence image shows chloroplasts (magenta colored) successfully incorporated into the hamster cells, with other features of the animal cell also highlighted (nuclei in light blue and ...

Now, scientists believe that water — specifically rain — may have been instrumental in creating the first cells on Earth ... which are crucial aspects of life. Additionally, while the use of real ...

Plants and animals have up to trillions of cells that work together to produce ever more intricate organization and function. Within cells are organelles, or little organs, that do specific jobs.

Life in Thick Water. There’s no way for biologists to travel back in time to test the real conditions of Snowball Earth, but they can try to re-create aspects of them in the lab. In an enormous, ...