Researchers have discovered that tiny microscopic structures once believed to form before birth actually develop shortly afterward, and that a specific molecular signal drives the process. The finding ...

Tiny folds anchoring human skin, called 'rete ridges,' form soon after birth. They show an early-life window that could ...

Our circadian clocks play a crucial role in our health and well-being, keeping our 24-hour biological cycles in sync with light and dark exposure. Disruptions in the rhythms of these clocks, as with ...

A scientist whose wife has incurable cancer has transformed microscope images of breast cancer cells into large-scale ...

Deep beneath scorched desert stone, scientists uncovered microscopic tunnels carved with eerie precision, structures that ...

Deep inside Earth lies a hidden world of "intraterrestrials" that have been dormant for hundreds of thousands of years — what ...

A tiny algae recently discovered in India is helping to reconstruct how the oceans moved millions of years ago.

“People who chew a lot of gum, drink carbonated drinks or eat too quickly may swallow more air, for example, which can cause ...

A doctoral student re-created a tiny piece of the universe in a bottle to investigate the chemistry that led to life on Earth.

Micro-organisms constitute a very antique group of living organisms which appeared on the Earth's surface almost 3000 million years ago.

Lurking among them is a “giant” virus, a genetic behemoth that blurs the line between the living and the inanimate. When this ...

A new study suggests that people may experience the same virus differently based on how quickly the cells in their noses ...