Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers.

Scientists organize millions of proteins by shape, as predicted by AI, revealing 700,000 new families and some shapes unique ...

At the microscopic edge of biology, researchers have uncovered an organism so stripped down that it forces a rethink of what ...

All species on Earth, both living and extinct, are related. We know this because of a biological tool called the tree of life. This "tree" takes the form of a diagram that maps the relationships ...

A tree of life based on genes from across the nuclear genome and containing nearly 60% of all angiosperm genera unveils the complex evolutionary history of flowering plants. This tree both ...

Photos show tourists climbing on the exposed roots of the endangered Tree of Life in Washington’s Olympic National Park. Screen grab from Instagram An iconic, endangered tree in a Washington’s Olympic ...