With copper-blue blood prized by modern medicine and a body plan older than dinosaurs, the horseshoe crab reveals how ancient ...

A new JSTAT study shows how to compute the minimum energy cells use to sustain certain metabolic pathways while suppressing ...

There are “costs of life” that mechanical physics cannot calculate. A clear example is the energy required to keep specific ...

Living cells pay a hidden energy price not just to run chemical reactions, but to keep them on track and block all the ...

The oldest fossilized remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that ...

Octopus and other cephalopods are good at hiding themselves—and are inspiring cutting-edge technologies that may help us do ...

Dogs began diversifying thousands of years earlier than previously believed, with clear differences in size and shape ...

A 1.78-million-year-old partial elephant skeleton found in Tanzania associated with stone tools may represent the oldest ...