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A single thermal performance curve applies across life, from bacteria to animals. Species differ in optimal temperatures, but not in the fundamental shape of their response to heat. Researchers at Tri ...

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Shane Campbell-Staton is professor of evolutionary biology at Princeton University. He's also the host of the PBS show, Human ...

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A mining-machine test on the deep-ocean floor resulted in species diversity declining by roughly 32% in the tracks of the ...

Long before modern medicine named and cataloged human herpesviruses, at least one of them was already quietly embedding ...

Electroactive microbes have emerged as key players at the interface of biology, chemistry, and engineering due to their ...

Four of the nine galaxies in the newly identified "platypus" sample were discovered in NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's ...

At first glance, the insect trapped in golden resin looked like any other tiny victim of deep time. Only under close ...

Chemist Lee Cronin challenges AI doom and explains assembly theory, showing how complexity signals life, so you can judge ...

It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about the behavior or nature and evolution. Now, USC researchers want to add a ...