Group offers new scenario for how cells came to rely on phosphate molecules to build DNA and store energy

Dozens of new discoveries reveal that defenses evolved by bacteria and viruses billions of years ago still define our own innate immune system.

The immune-conflict between dam and fetus could help explain sex differences in neurodevelopmental conditions.

Some nociceptors can survive a lifetime’s worth of exposure to noxious stimuli by reducing their mitochondria’s production of reactive oxygen species.

The mechanism enables each olfactory neuron in the ant to express exactly one out of hundreds of olfactory receptors.

Null results—those that contradict a study’s original hypothesis or fail to find a cause-and-effect link between variables—can be easy to dismiss as non-news but may lead to valuable stories that show...

During waking hours, a specialized set of sleep neurons in the fly brain accumulates reactive oxygen species, which eventually trigger sleep to clean up and repair the damage they do.

A growing body of work suggests that cell metabolism — the chemical reactions that provide energy and building materials — plays a vital, overlooked role in the first steps of life.

Women faculty are more likely to leave their jobs than men, most often due to workplace climate, rather than work-life balance.

This is an update to the Disease Outbreak News on Undiagnosed disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo published on 8 December 2024 (now named acute respiratory infections complicated by malari...

Elsevier retracts dozens of journal articles that were published based on “fictitious” reviews

Fake papers are “poisoning the well” for these gold-standard syntheses, researchers say

Integrated analyses of bromalites provide robust pictures of past food webs, explaining early dinosaur evolution and the emergence of larger dinosaur faunas with new feeding patterns.