Bacteria are different from you and me. Always the minimalists, they lack features that plant and animal cells usually can’t do without: a nucleus, special organelles, and an internal skeleton made of ...

Sea urchin skeletons may owe some of their strength to a common geometric design. Urchin skeletons display “an incredible diversity of structures at the microscale, varying from fully ordered to ...

There are various ways to create artificial diamonds, but a new method developed by researchers, including those at the ...

The tiny tubes and thread-like structures that give cells their shape and help determine their function have been artificially re-created using strands of DNA in a study led by UCL researchers. The ...

A refined type of spectroscopy could advance a long-standing debate about the presence of dinosaur soft tissue ...

ABSTRACT: Ocean acidification has been predicted to reduce the ability of marine organisms to produce carbonate skeletons, threatening their long-term viability and severely impacting marine ...

Researchers have suggested that a massive extinction of soft-bodied life allowed hard-bodied, calcified life to flourish. But Rachel Wood at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and her colleagues found ...

Andrew Joseph covers health, medicine, and the biopharma industry in Europe. You can reach Andrew on Signal at drewqjoseph.45. LONDON — A trio of scientists who opened new doors in our understanding ...