A 2025 historical review identifies romantic kissing in Sumerian manuscripts dated to approximately 2600–2500 BCE. A comparative primate study suggests broader kissing behavior existed in ape ...

For decades, scientists have debated where bats first evolved, with Africa, Asia and North America among the proposed origins ...

Smallest archaeal genome ever recorded: Sukunaarchaeum mirabile, found in Pacific Ocean plankton, encodes only 189 proteins -- fewer than many viruses -- but retains its own ribosomes, qualifying it ...

A 165-million-year-old fossil reveals a half-meter-long mammal relative adapted for hunting in water. Its skull and throat bones suggest a swallowing system with features important for drinking and ...

As you become accustomed to taro and Alocasia, your eyes begin to wander to other plants with similar leaves. This time, I ...

Researchers have built a phylogeny-agnostic machine-learning framework that predicts strain-level phage–host interactions ...

New research reveals that ergosterol in Metarhizium spores creates an evolutionary trade-off between fungal vulnerability to ...

Last time, we saw that a new genus called Carrilloa was officially announced in 2026.Echeveria cante↓Carrilloa canteEcheveria ...

A newly discovered species, Leopardus tilcayo, was the first feline species in over a century to be formally recognized. The ...

Mammalian biology unfolds over time, within tissues and organs opaque to our eyes and instruments. We applied DNA Typewriter, ...

Diffuse gastric cancer (DGC) is an aggressive gastric cancer subtype with a poor prognosis. The RHOA Y42C mutation is recurrent in DGC, but its independent oncogenic role is unclear. Next-Generation ...