Lead exposure may have spelled evolutionary success for humans—and extinction for our ancient cousins—but other scientists ...

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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 ...

Australian scientists have developed a groundbreaking approach that harnesses artificial biological intelligence to rapidly evolve molecules with improved functions directly within mammal cells. This ...

Fluorescent proteins can be turned into qubits within cells and could give us a deeper understanding of biology at the ...

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 ...

These "imposter crabs" have evolved independently through natural selection, as a rounded shell and signature sideways ...

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 ...