Our body’s most abundant protein behaves like a liquid inside cells
Collagen is often described as the body's natural scaffolding. It gives strength and structure to skin, bones, tendons, organs, and many other tissues.
For decades,...
Consciousness may exist beyond humans, animals, and even Earth
Could consciousness exist in alien life forms that look nothing like us? Could it even appear in machines?
According to a new paper by philosophers...
A lack of sex may have delayed the explosion of life, study finds
For millions of years, some of Earth's earliest animals barely changed.
They lived, grew, and spread across the seafloor, but evolution seemed stuck in slow...
Dinosaur-killing asteroid may have created an underground oasis for life
The asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago is often remembered as one of the most destructive events in Earth's...
Scientists discover a key protein that makes rice more nutritious and tastier
Rice is one of the world's most important foods, providing a daily source of calories for nearly half of the global population.
It is also...
Ancient asteroid impacts may have helped life begin on Earth
A new study suggests that the intense asteroid bombardment that struck the young Earth billions of years ago may have played an important role...
Scientists discover the surprising secret behind how honeybees create queens
For many years, scientists believed that becoming a queen honeybee was mainly a matter of diet.
The idea was simple: feed a young larva large...
How a giant deep-sea creature can survive more than five years without eating
Deep in the ocean, where food is scarce and sunlight never reaches, lives a strange giant crustacean known as the supergiant isopod.
These armored creatures,...
Ancient Martian ocean? Vast clay deposits may hold clues to life on Mars
Scientists have discovered that huge clay deposits near the landing site of the upcoming ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover are much larger than previously thought.
The...
Scientists launch 10-year plan to build living cells from scratch
A team of scientists from across Asia has launched an ambitious project to create artificial living cells from non-living materials within the next decade.
If...