Living cells pay a hidden energy price not just to run chemical reactions, but to keep them on track and block all the ...

There are "costs of life" that mechanical physics cannot calculate. A clear example is the energy required to keep specific ...

For centuries, scientists have known that plants "breathe" through microscopic pores on their leaves called stomata. These ...

A new JSTAT study shows how to compute the minimum energy cells use to sustain certain metabolic pathways while suppressing ...

Molecular biosciences Prof. Heather Pinkett has been the only Black faculty member in her department for the past 12 years.

Australian researchers have discovered a hidden climate superpower of trees. Their bark harbors trillions of microbes that ...

Key pointsResearchers have revealed trillions of microbes live in the bark of every tree Tree microbes clean the air by removing greenhouse and toxic ...

In one of the hottest places on the planet, a modest desert shrub has quietly rewritten what scientists thought plants could ...

Cell division is an essential process for all life on earth, yet the exact mechanisms by which cells divide during early ...

Flexoelectricity, which can transform mechanical deformation into electrical signals, could provide enough power to fire ...