After decades of debate, researchers say that they have found the clearest evidence yet for this rare form of carbon.

A new study has uncovered how an exceptionally scarce protein can orchestrate the assembly of large-scale gene-silencing structures inside cells, and what happens when that process breaks down. The ...

Juvenile white sharks aren’t quite the loners we imagined. In Southern California, these young predators overlap in space but largely avoid each other, with their movement patterns shaped more by ...

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...