It's a tough world for microbes. When resources grow limited and environments worsen, microbes have figured out ways to hunker down and go dormant until conditions improve.

The bird retina is one of the most energetically expensive tissues in the animal kingdom, yet it doesn’t use the energy ...

Every time a cell divides, it must copy its DNA with extraordinary precision. But this process is constantly challenged by ...

Cellular respiration is how cells convert glucose into ATP, the fuel for life’s processes. Glycolysis, the Krebs cycle, and the electron transport chain work in sequence to release energy in a ...

From the tiniest cell motor to the grand sweep of Earth's carbon cycle, photosynthesis and cellular respiration form the ...