All life shares a single root buried deep in Earth’s past. Its name? Asgard, and it rewrites what we thought we knew.

Jump into 2026 with a recap of UCSB's most recent research innovations.

Scientists have identified a microbe capable of interpreting a single piece of genetic code in two completely different ways.

Johns Hopkins University geneticists and a small army of researchers across the country, including students, are working to catalog the vast and largely unknown soil microbiome of the United States.

The origin of eukaryotes traced from Asgard archaea, revealing how complex cells evolved and led to animals, plants and ...

Biologists are confronting a problem they thought they had mostly solved: what, exactly, counts as life. A wave of ...

Researchers discover a unique genetic code in Antarctic archaea that encodes a rare amino acid, potentially advancing protein ...