Rule-breaking discovery: Researchers found a pond protist that reassigns all three standard genetic stop codons to amino ...

Scientists have identified a pond-dwelling protist that breaks long-held genetic rules by reassigning two standard stop ...

Scientists from the Earlham Institute accidentally discovered a single-celled microorganism that violates one of the ...

A routine experiment with a new single-cell DNA sequencing method turned into a surprising scientific twist when researchers ...

Climate change is raising surface temperatures of natural waters, increasing concern about pathogenic species in aquatic environments that can infect humans ...

The U.N. Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) on Sunday approved the listing of 40 new species for international protection, including the snowy owl featured in ...

Researchers from the Earlham Institute, in collaboration with the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford, have discovered three previously unrecognized lineages of the protist Bodo, each ...

And then there were none. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals and plants have now gone extinct. The 2025 list of extinctions ...

The typical human digestive tract is home to one of the densest communities of microorganisms on the planet. Bacteria dominate researchers’ attention, with the roles of other members of this ecosystem ...

Scientists described numerous new species this past year, from the world’s smallest otter in India to a fanged hedgehog from Southeast Asia, tree-dwelling frogs in Madagascar, and a new family of ...

Tree of life (ToL) is a metaphorical tree that captures a simplified narrative of the evolutionary course and kinship among all living organisms of today. We have reconstructed a whole-proteome ToL ...