From CRISPR to gene banking, synthetic biology has big implications for wildlife evolution and conservation, but ethical ...

What scientific knowledge is and is not presumed in legal reasoning, and what are the differences between what is and what is ...

Scientists have traced the origins of complex life to the breakup of the supercontinent Nuna 1.5 billion years ago. This ...

In a suspected case of reverse evolution, wild tomatoes in the Galápagos have developed a defense mechanism that hasn’t been seen in millions of years.

An international team of researchers led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig ...

Ants have evolved an acute sense of smell, which requires each sensory neuron to choose one scent receptor out of hundreds.

When Earth’s ancient supercontinent Nuna broke apart, it reshaped oceans, cooled the climate, and set the stage for complex ...

Despite their wide variety of sizes, niches and shapes, sharks scale geometrically, pointing to possible fundamental ...

A study led by researchers from the University of Sydney and the University of Adelaide has revealed how the breakup of an ...

The arrival of agriculture coincided with a sharp rise in a gene variant that protected against the virus that causes winter ...

Can artificial intelligence function as a partner in scientific discovery, capable of generating novel, testable hypotheses ...

Therefore, female birds have a greater genetic vulnerability, which explains why males tend to live longer in this class. But ...