For a decade, scientists have believed that plants sense temperature mainly through specialized proteins, and mainly at night ...

As jewelflowers spread into California from the desert Southwest over the past couple of million years, they settled in ...

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

Earth's earliest life forms developed ways to survive the harmful effects of arsenic to cope with dramatic changes in their ...