"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative," wrote H. G. Wells. This principle—that survival requires ...

Scientists have detected some of the oldest signs of life on Earth using a new method that recognizes chemical fingerprints ...

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An enigmatic group of fossil organisms has finally been identified—and is changing the story of how plants took root on land ...

Scientists found 3.3 billion-year-old biosignatures in ancient meteorites and fossils—a billion years older than we thought ...

Throughout any given year, the National Academies convene hundreds of conferences, workshops, symposia, forums, roundtables, and other gatherings that attract the finest minds in academia and the ...

Over a feverish 10-day period, scientists synthesized and described a new class of carbon molecules, called buckminster ...

Update (December 12): Following a string of indictments against a smuggling ring, Cambodia will no longer export long-tailed macaques, STAT reports. Long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) and ...

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Women's hidden extra work, positive tipping points and new thinking on autism – there's much to chew on in this year's best ...

Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) program that can automatically provide species-level identification of microscopic marine organisms. The next step is to incorporate the AI ...

In uncertain environments, organisms not only react to signals, but also use molecular processes to make guesses about the future, according to a study by Markus Arnoldini et al. from ETH Zurich and ...