Without the chicken, there is no egg; without the egg, there is no chicken – but which came first? This dilemma has puzzled many great minds over the years. It seems that scientists from the ...

Between 1.8 billion and 800 million years ago, earthly life was in the doldrums. During this period, called the "boring ...

The "boring billion" shaped multicellularity, with energy demands sparking complexity. This era shows evolution's cost.

Without the chicken, there is no egg, and without the egg, there is no chicken – but which came first? This dilemma has ...

But to find that complexity, we must take the lessons of the boring billion to heart. Planets are not just a stage on which ...

Coral larvae reduce their metabolism and increase nitrogen uptake to resist bleaching in high temperatures, according to a new study.

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At the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, synthetic biologist Sangram Bagh has a major and somewhat unusual goal: to ...

Contact lenses and water “are a bad combination” because water makes contact lens wearers vulnerable to eye infections, the ...

Since soon after our planet formed, Earth's 4.6 billion-year-long history was dominated by single-celled life. Something ...