Challenging the long-standing assumption that a cell’s nucleus contains a complete set of chromosomes, recent research ...

Ant queens of one species are sexual parasites that clone ants of another species to create hybrid workers that do their ...

If you pull an ice core from the outer edges of the Arctic polar cap, you might spot what looks like a faint line of dirt.

Hidden within Arctic ice, diatoms are proving to be anything but dormant. New Stanford research shows these glass-walled ...

Study of Asgard archaea reveals insights into the evolution of cellular complexity through analysis of cytoskeletal proteins.

Microbes found buried deep in Siberian permafrost may be able to survive over extremely long timescales using protein repair ...

This organism was not expected to be alive. So scientists were surprised to see that not only was it living, but also active ...

For the first time, researchers report that Arctic algae can hustle along in -15 C – the lowest-temperature movement ever ...

Scientists previously believed that diatoms in the Arctic ice that were hibernating are alive and active. The researchers ...

A new study dates a Scottish meteorite impact to 990 million years ago, changing the timeline of complex life on Earth.

Scientists used ice cores and underwater drones during an expedition to understand how life survived in the extreme ...