A new study posits that same-sex sexual behavior developed to help primates in complex social groups ease tension, reduce ...
It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about ...
An inexplicably hot, fast-growing cluster of galaxies in the early universe has scientists questioning theories of galactic ...
During these waves of mass extinction, most vertebrate survivors were confined to refugia, or isolated biodiversity hotspots ...
Researchers at Scripps have created T7-ORACLE, a powerful new tool that speeds up evolution, allowing scientists to design and improve proteins thousands of times faster than nature. Using engineered ...
A fish thought to be evolution’s time capsule just surprised scientists. A detailed dissection of the coelacanth — a 400-million-year-old species often called a “living fossil” — revealed that key ...
Hundreds of miles off the coast of Ecuador, in the very place that inspired Charles Darwin’s seminal theory of evolution, a wild-growing species appears to have hit rewind. A small tomato found in the ...