biology

New ‘fire amoeba’ shatters heat record for complex life

Scientists have discovered a new species of amoeba that thrives at temperatures previously thought impossible for complex life, breaking the long-standing record for eukaryotic heat tolerance. The organism, named *Incendiamoeba cascadensis* — or "fire amoeba from the Cascades" — can…

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New technique records nearly every cell’s activity in a living animal

Scientists at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus have developed a technique that can simultaneously record real-time communication signals from nearly every cell in a living vertebrate — a first in biology that offers an unprecedented window into how the body's organs…

Biologists revive Lamarck’s theory to fill gaps in Darwin’s evolution framework

More than two centuries after Jean-Baptiste Lamarck proposed that organisms could pass on traits acquired during their lifetimes, a growing body of scientific evidence is breathing new life into the long-dismissed theory. In an essay published in The Conversation on…