Ants are a superorganism – a group of organisms of the same species all working together in synergy. Rather than acting as individuals, they’ve evolved to operate as a unified organism – dividing ...

By drawing together evolution's longest-running experiments and field studies for the first time, Stroud and Ratcliff offer key insights into studying this fundamental process, suggesting that ...

Few weapons have defined the tempo of modern warfare quite like the machine gun. It isn’t a new concept by any means, with the notion of rapid fire volleys being something dating back to the Age of ...

Evolution naturally produces the fittest living things for a given environment, but labs can speed up that process to uncover how cells respond to specific pressures. These directed evolution ...

A research team has used a machine learning approach to investigate the evolution of shell structure for nuclei far from the stability valley. The study, published in Physics Letters B and conducted ...

"Evolution isn't just about change over millions of years in fossils—it's happening all around us, right now," says James Stroud, the paper's lead author and an Elizabeth Smithgall Watts Early Career ...