Biologists Baffled by Never-Before-Seen Structure in a Tiny Organism

The research is opening new frontiers in pest control and evolutionary biology. An international group of scientists has uncovered a strange tubular structure within Profftella, a bacterium that lives ...
New Scientist

Novels with a certain structure are more likely to be classics

Novels need a gripping story to stay popular as the decades pass, but it seems that other less-obvious factors may also ...

Uptake of DNA fragments from dying cells could redefine mammalian evolution and genomics

For decades, scientists have known that bacteria can exchange genetic material, in a process called horizontal gene transfer.
Scientific Research Publishing

If Not Me then Who? The Identity and Activism of Black Women during Jim Crow and Apartheid in the United States and South Africa ()

If Not Me then Who? The Identity and Activism of Black Women during Jim Crow and Apartheid in Jim Crow and apartheid are two ...