The Illustrated Story of Life, biologist Christian Sardet invites readers on a vivid journey to appreciate the origin and ...

Something written in every biology textbook of the past 70 years may need a rewrite. Not because the science was careless, or ...

The meteoric rise of cryo-electron microscopy from an obscure imaging technique to a powerhouse for determining biomolecular structures is transforming our understanding of biology. Our knowledge of ...

The illustration shows a cutaway revealing the interior of early Earth with a hot, melted layer above the boundary between the core and mantle. Scientists think some material from the core leaked into ...

A new study led by researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Institute of Science Tokyo has uncovered a surprising role for calcium in shaping life's earliest molecular structures.

Asteroid impacts may have helped make Earth habitable. (Discovery Access/Getty Images) Somehow, on this beautiful blue marble ...

Phosphomimetic mutations allow the assembly of full-length recombinant tau into Alzheimer's paired helical filaments by disrupting intramolecular contacts between its ordered core and fuzzy coat.

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