The missing link isn’t a not-yet-discovered fossil, after all. It’s a tiny, self-replicating globule called a coacervate droplet.

AI technology enables learning of the stiffness levels and distributions of the tumor, suggesting the possibility of cancer diagnosis.

According to this scenario, life on Earth was originally based on RNA only, and DNA and protein enzymes evolved later.

Research suggests that “selfish chromosomes” explain why most human embryos die very early on before a mother even knows she is pregnant.

The human middle ear houses three tiny, vibrating bones and is key to transporting sound vibrations into the inner ear that allow us to hear

Long-duration space flight alters fluid-filled spaces along veins and arteries in the brain, according to new research

Quantum dots can measure things in the body that are very, very dynamic and complicated and that we can't see currently.

Astronauts might one day grow and eat genetically modified plants to ward off disease associated with long spaceflights.

Researchers have found that body temperature exerts a greater effect on lifespan than metabolic rate.

Research found that in humid climates, the temperatures to which humans can adapt may be lower than previously thought.

If the collective activity of life—known as the biosphere—can change the world, could the collective activity of cognition also change it?

All life consists of the same chemical building blocks. These include peptides, which perform various completely different body functions.

LMU neuroscientists have shown that breathing coordinates neuronal activity throughout the brain during sleep and quiet.

A world-first study has revealed how space travel can cause lower red blood cell counts, known as space anemia.

Evidence demonstrates a close connection between the fraction of organic matter buried in sediments and changes in supernovae occurrence.

Matter on Earth, both live and inert, experiences the effects of the gravitational forces of the Sun and Moon expressed in the form of tides

Throughout evolution sleep has remained universal and essential to all organisms with a nervous system.

When two people are attracted to one another, their heart rates tend to synchronize and their palms sweat together.

A widely accepted theory of Native American origins coming from Japan has been attacked in a new scientific study.

Most of the cells in our bodies – be they bone, muscle or pancreas cells – are locked into the right place with the help of tiny anchors.