UC Santa Barbara Physicist Boris Shraiman has led an intellectually peripatetic career, to great satisfaction, success and acclaim.

Scientists have discovered that complex life began evolving much earlier than traditional models suggested. Using an expanded ...

Scientists have discovered a strange tubular structure inside Profftella, a symbiotic bacterium in the Asian citrus psyllid. These long, helical tubes, filled with ribosomes, show a complexity not ...

Evolution is neither purposeful nor intentional: it has no ideal, aim, or end-point. For evolutionary change, there are no ...

From controlling fire to decoding DNA, humans have achieved levels of adaptation unseen in nature. Biologists call this a “cultural evolution loop,” where ideas evolve faster than genes. This feedback ...

"Science evolves at the speed of light, diplomats move slowly": Brazilian envoy on Biological Weapons Convention ...

A cell is fundamentally a container—a vessel that encapsulates life at the most basic level. Many biologists believe ...

When males are forced to compete for females, new species form more rapidly. This has been shown in a new study where the ...

The question of consciousness has puzzled scientists for decades, but new research suggests the answer lies not in what consciousness is, but rather in what purpose it serves. According to Professors ...

Although we humans have changed our environment in many ways during the past few thousand years, we are still changed by ...

The advent of artificial intelligence might be just the latest stage in a guiding biological process that has produced ever more complex, mutually dependent organisms over the history of life.

A groundbreaking fossil discovery beneath the waters off Java, Indonesia, is reshaping long-held ideas about early human ...