Sequencing hundreds of samples of material collected from the vast network of quaking aspen ( Populus tremuloides ), a team ...

Pando is a giant aspen clone in central Utah that has been regrowing parts of itself for up to 80,000 years — but new threats ...

The world is full of unusual unicellular organisms and microbes, many of which have not been discovered yet. In 2017, ...

豢养宠物已经逐渐成为不少年轻人生活的重要组成部分，继养“臭水”“纸盒狗”“芒果核”之后，不少人又养起了黏菌。与电影《毒液》中黑色的外星生命不同，这是一种滑溜溜的黄色黏液。 黄色的黏菌在找食物（来源：文献 2） ...

Researchers at the Complexity Science Hub and Santa Fe Institute have developed a model to calculate how quickly or slowly an ...

Chromosphaera perkinsii is a single-celled species discovered in 2017 in marine sediments around Hawaii. The first signs of its presence on Earth have been dated at over a billion years, well before ...

人，是有机动物，是按照昼夜冬夏活跃、放松。但是现在遇到的环境，某种程度计算机主导着。被迫保持永远活跃，尤其是强迫这么一个有机体永远保持活跃，结局一定是崩溃而死（挂）。在信息炸弹的世界里，事实往往会比信息复杂，但是信息往往比真实传播更容易。而去避免过量 ...

研究者在一种参与脂肪醛氧化的酶附近发现了一种假定的因果变异，并在酵母中测试了这种基因，以确认其产生色素变化的能力。研究中广泛的生化和遗传学工作有助于人们了解非模式生物的颜色，为未来对鹦鹉和其他鸟类色素沉着的研究打开大门。

Scientists have observed a type of cell division in a prehistoric unicellular organism that resembles the embryonic development seen in animal embryos, hinting that embryonic processes may have ...

Recent samples from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, or FWC, show natural, background levels in Lee and ...

Microbes unable to break down carbohydrates belong to a newly identified family of marine bacteria. A German-American ...