In a shallow pond at Oxford University Parks, surrounded by dog walkers and rowing crews, a single-celled organism has been ...

Scientists have identified a pond-dwelling protist that breaks long-held genetic rules by reassigning two standard stop ...

A routine experiment with a new single-cell DNA sequencing method turned into a surprising scientific twist when researchers ...

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Over time, plastics break into smaller and smaller fragments called microplastics and — when they’re invisible to the naked eye — nanoplastics. The human body’s mechanisms ...

High-stakes talks between the United States and Iran have ended without a deal, and Iran’s chief negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, has blamed the US for the failure of talks held in Islamabad, ...

Researchers from the Earlham Institute, in collaboration with the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford, have discovered three previously unrecognized lineages of the protist Bodo, each ...

You may have heard about peptides lately from a wellness influencer, your gym friend, or our secretary of Health and Human Services. The purported benefits of taking peptides are wide-ranging: more ...

Expansion microscopy image of Lacrymaria, a ciliated eukaryotic microorganism, collected from environmental samples in Tokyo. Highlighted in green is tubulin, the major protein component of ...

While much of the Epstein files remain sealed, several high-profile people have been named in some of the released documents Jordana Comiter is an Associate Editor on the Evergreen team at PEOPLE. She ...