For nearly four billion years, life on Earth evolved blindly. Natural selection tinkered, mutations accumulated, and ...

Some 17 months ago, scientists detected an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in dairy cattle in Nebraska in ...

As in a batch of kombucha or a barrel of sherry, microbes can assemble into a mat-like layer at the boundary between air and ...

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected genetic shift that may explain how animals with backbones first emerged and became so diverse.

New research from the University of St Andrews has discovered a crucial piece in the puzzle of how all animals with a spine—including all mammals, fish, reptiles and amphibians—evolved. In a paper ...

The frogs’ adaptations is similar to adaptations made by humans in high-radiation regions, pointing to an underlying ...

In A Nutshell Ancient origins: Genes linked to dyslexia date back over 430 million years to early vertebrates: they’re not recent evolutionary innovations Recycled brain circuits: Humans don’t have ...

New research suggests fire was key to making our bodies successful in evolution – but not in the ways we previously thought.

For nearly four billion years, life on Earth evolved blindly. Natural selection tinkered, mutations accumulated, and organisms changed without foresight or design. Evolution, as scientists often say, ...

Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have developed a new tool to predict how cancer cells evolve. By focusing on chromosome ...

Super7 is back with some more kaiju fun as they debut their new Toho ReAction Figure Wave 10 Godzilla collectible figures ...