A research team from the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague has discovered Solarion arienae, an extremely rare ...

Mississippi State biologist Matthew W. Brown is part of an international research team whose groundbreaking discovery ...

Last month, Brown was named the 2025 recipient of MSU’s Ralph E. Powe Research Excellence Award, the university’s highest ...

All species on Earth, both living and extinct, are related. We know this because of a biological tool called the tree of life. This "tree" takes the form of a diagram that maps the relationships ...

Mississippi State biologist Matthew W. Brown, the university’s Donald L. Hall Professor of Biology, is part of an ...

The "grotesque" baobab tree has long been known as the "tree of life" for its ability to create and maintain its own ecosystem in arid regions. Since the time of the ancient Egyptians, people have ...

Play NOVA's Evolution Lab to explore the tree of life and become an expert in phylogenetics—the study of the evolutionary relationships among species. Receive emails about upcoming NOVA programs and ...

Though beautiful in its comprehensive artistic renditions of taxonomic families within the tree of life, the Tree of Life – PRO app is not as informative as it is made out to be. As a tool to browse ...

Discover how ancient DNA and AI combine to uncover powerful new antibiotics, offering hope in the fight against antimicrobial ...

When Josefin Stiller was growing up in Berlin, she loved reading about Greek gods in an encyclopedia of mythology. She often lost track of their relationships, however—their feuds, trysts, and ...