The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

Evolution is complex and difficult to study, but TraitTrainR, a new software package developed by the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, offers researchers a better way to simulate how ...

David Tilman Greater biodiversity promotes ecosystem health, resilience and productivity. This tenet has become a cornerstone ...

An artificial intelligence model has created a new protein that researchers say would have taken 500 million years to evolve ...

Research conducted by an international team and led by biologists at the University of Kentucky has found that the ability to ...

Scientists recreated the origins of one of life's most important partnerships, uncovering how symbiotic relationships can ...

UCSB's Professor David Tilman just recieved the National Medal of Science for revealing the importance of biodiversity.

An evaluation of introductory biology syllabi from just under 100 colleges and universities finds the syllabus is often ...

Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the ...

Discover how scientists blend biology, synthetic biology, and astrobiology to speculate on alien life forms, focusing on the ...