This illustration shows a Fractofusus community with clusters that arose from runners sent by the older generation. C. G. Kenchington A soft-bodied, fernlike creature reproduced in Earth's ancient ...

A vital structure found in the neurons of all animals might have originated in bacteria. Cells’ outer membranes contain specialized proteins called ion channels, which open to allow ions into or out ...

Jaya Saxena is a former correspondent at Eater, and the series editor of Best American Food and Travel Writing. She explores wide ranging topics like labor, identity, and food culture. Yilmaz Bora got ...

Cultivated meat is often heralded as an emerging alternative to intensive animal agriculture, promising new ways to produce slaughter-free beef, pork or poultry proteins. But one cellular ag start-up ...