"This is not a chemical with zero risk," Melissa Perry, a professor of public health at George Mason University, told ...

Reverend Jesse Jackson certainly made his mark not just nationwide but right here in the Triad. He has been regarded as North ...

ZIMBABWE has officially launched the long-acting HIV prevention injection lenacapavir, with the United States pledging to ...

Hormel Foods reached an agreement to sell several assets to Life-Science Innovations, including locations in Melrose and ...

A giant virus discovered in Japan is adding fuel to the provocative idea that viruses helped create complex life. Named ushikuvirus, it infects amoebae and shows unique traits that connect different ...

For decades, scientists have believed that complex life began when two very different microbes joined forces, eventually ...

Symbiotic bacteria living inside insect cells have lost much of their DNA over hundreds of millions of years, much like the ancient microbes that evolved into mitochondria ...

Experiments reveal that unsaturated lipid membranes promote vesicle fusion and DNA retention during freeze–thaw cycles, highlighting icy environments as potential drivers of protocell evolution. Today ...

Scientists may be one step closer in their hunt for signs of past life on Mars after the Curiosity rover's latest find.

Stanford Professor Rebecca Silverman discusses a transformative movement backed by research that is changing literacy ...

The most widely accepted scientific explanation for the arrival of all complex life on Earth has had an unsolved mystery at its heart. According to the theory, all plants, animals and fungi, known ...

Scientists propose that eukaryotes formed when an Asgard archaeon entered into a close partnership with an alphaproteobacterium. Over time, the two organisms became permanently linked. The ...