Genomes are key to unlocking life's evolutionary history. The presence and absence of certain genetic sequences and mutations can give us clues to the ...

A rare fossil plant reveals how early plants moved water and food, helping to explain the secrets of tree growth.

READING, Pa. — It's been 10 years since Reading put up what came to be known as the "Charlie Brown Christmas tree." This year, the anniversary is being honored in a special way. "There was a lot of ...

Four billion years ago, Earth was violent, hot, and unstable. Yet new research suggests that by then, life had already ...

Scientists used mtDNA to confirm what many researchers had long suspected: the Chinese “dragon man” Harbin skull belonged to ...

WEST READING, Pa. – Crews are decking the halls for the holidays in West Reading. On Monday morning, crews decorated the borough Christmas tree in Delaney Circle, not far from Fifth and Penn avenues.

The microscopic organisms that fill our bodies, soils, oceans and atmosphere play essential roles in human health and the planet's ecosystems. Yet ...

In the dim waters off the Japanese coast, scientists have stumbled upon something that shouldn’t exist. Or at least not by the rules we thought biology followed. It’s a single-celled organism with ...

Scientists have discovered a single-celled organism in the hot springs of Lassen Volcanic National Park, which is not only ...

Larger animals do get more cancer than smaller ones, overturning the 45-year-old “Peto’s paradox” which suggested no link between animal size and cancer risk Species that evolved larger body sizes ...

This study reports a valuable method to predict the capacity of a candidate probiotic bacterium to metabolically outcompete a bacterial pathogen in the ecological niche of the murine respiratory tract ...

Don't toss that supermarket lemon. Learn how to grow lemon trees (Citrus x limon) from seeds to produce one of the most fragrant flowering trees around.