Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the ...

Discover how scientists blend biology, synthetic biology, and astrobiology to speculate on alien life forms, focusing on the ...

Was blood a factor in the demise of the Neanderthals? New research is showing that Homo sapiens underwent huge changes in their blood groups after leaving Africa, between 70,000 and 45,000 years ago, ...

Scientists have developed a theoretical model that uncovers the dual role of polyploidy -- organisms carrying extra genome copies -- in evolution. Their findings reveal that polyploidy can stabilize ...

Two new studies offer insights into the evolution and development of external ears, which appear in humans and other mammals ...

Human populations that left Africa evolved quickly whereas Neanderthals stayed the same, according to an analysis of blood ...

Is there only one optimal configuration an organism can reach during evolution? Is there a single formula that describes the trajectory towards the optimum? And can we 'derive' it in a purely ...

Scientists have traced the evolutionary origin of humans' outer ears to the gills of ancient fish through a series of ...

After a rough start, the jail’s program for those with opioid use disorder has changed, including a new dashboard for public oversight.

The award will support ongoing research into the role of inflammation in animals from birds to mammals, work that has also implications in human medicine.

Humans are the only mammals with long hair on their heads. Scientists look into what drives this unique feature.

Combing through scads of DNA, chemical structure, and functional data, researchers have created an AI-guided platform that ...