Some animals aren’t just lucky, they’re biological masterpieces of adaptation. These creatures thrive in extreme conditions through genetic mutations and behavioral evolution that scientists are still ...

Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and steadily began to spread its reach from the tidal pools to the oceans to the shorelines to the ...

A study published in Nature by researchers at IRB Barcelona and the University of Washington shows that smoking and ...

From natural selection to the history of nature -- From the units of inheritance to the origin of species -- Multicellularity and the developmental code -- Life cycle evolution : life and death of the ...

Scientists have uncovered a 151-million-year-old midge fossil in Australia that challenges long-held views about insect ...

Aldronda Alonzo (left) and Pa Skaw Le feel the texture of a model brain Nov. 7 at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine booth at the Cedar Valley Family STEM Festival at the Five Sullivan ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Following vocal criticism of an initial revision to Iowa’s science education standards that stripped ...

Over millions of years, nature has reinvented the crab at least five separate times across various lineages of crustaceans in ...

A new scientific review tackles an age-old question: could dogs ever learn to talk? While barking out full sentences might ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1950 the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi was discussing the possibility of intelligent alien life with his colleagues. If alien ...

Older adults with neurological diseases are often underserved in clinical research due to disease complexity, biological variability and trial designs that fail to reflect their real-world needs. This ...