Multicellular cyanobacteria do something strikingly sophisticated with their DNA, toggling key genes on and off as day turns to night so different cells can specialize without starving the colony of ...

Researchers from the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have uncovered how soil food webs promote the transformation and storage of photosynthetic carbon in ...

Researchers with the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station have identified genetic mechanisms in rice that can help ...

A research team has demonstrated that combining moderate nitrogen reduction with short-term, low-intensity shading can ...

A machine-learning breakthrough could lift the veil on Earth’s early history—and supercharge the search for alien life ...

In a patch of the Pacific’s abyssal plain, scientists a surprising phenomenon called “dark oxygen production.” ...

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Teasing out biochemical information from ancient organic-rich sediments, notably the timing of the emergence of ...

Scientists are genetically engineering microbes to withstand industrial conditions for biofuel production. Researchers found ...

A machine-learning-enhanced approach to chemical analysis is drastically expanding the chemical record of life on Earth, and ...

Scientists uncover new evidence of early life on Earth using advanced molecular analysis and machine learning.

Using AI and advanced chemistry, scientists uncovered 3.3-billion-year-old chemical traces that mark the earliest evidence of ...