A team of researchers have found a "fire" amoeba in the ancient volcanic waters at Lassen Park in California. The findings ...

Slime mold is one of the strangest organisms on Earth. It has no brain, no nervous system, and yet it can solve complex problems that seem to require intelligence.

RENO, Nev. — Perhaps you’ve read in a biology textbook that humans have the same number of genes as Caenorhabditis elegans, a worm used in scientific research. Perhaps you’d also like to believe that ...

A team led by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin has produced what may be the strongest evidence yet that the ...

The diversity of unicellular eukaryotes covered in the study, with their nucleus (blue) and microtubule cytoskeleton (magenta) stained. These organisms are so distantly related to each other as they ...

Scientists have discovered evidence that an isolated pocket of complex life may have evolved on Earth more than 2 billion years ago – only to go extinct and take another 1.5 billion years to evolve to ...

Scientists have shown that placing physical constraints on an artificially-intelligent system -- in much the same way that the human brain has to develop and operate within physical and biological ...

Liquid samples of different algal species investigated in the study, all stored in the Culture Collection of Algae at Göttingen University. Of all the organisms that photosynthesize, land plants have ...

Ragnar van der Merwe received funding from the John Templeton Foundation as part of the project The Evolution of Complexity hosted at Bath University. Alex Broadbent received funding from the John ...

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