A new analysis suggests our language capacity existed at least 135,000 years ago, with language used widely perhaps 35,000 years after that.

New dataset of “illusory” faces reveals differences between human and algorithmic face detection, links to animal face recognition, and a formula predicting where people most often perceive faces.

The researchers identified an atomic-level interaction that prevents peptide bonds from being broken down by water.

A single protein can self-assemble to build the scaffold for a biomolecular condensate that makes up a key nucleolar compartment.

A new approach for identifying significant differences in gene use between closely-related species provides insights into human evolution.

Biology graduate student Tong Zhang has spent the last two years learning the intricacies of how bacteria protect themselves.

The new findings could explain biodiversity hotspots in tectonically quiet regions.

Developing a new neuroscience model is no small feat. New faculty member Brady Weissbourd has risen to the challenge in order to study nervous system evolution, development, regeneration, and function.

A new study shows the carbon-capturing phytoplankton colonized the ocean by rafting on particles of chitin.

Prochlorococcus, the world’s most abundant photosynthetic organism, reveals a gene-transfer mechanism that may be key to its abundance and diversity.