An international team of scientists from South Africa, Canada, France and the UK has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ...

Humans are the only primates that run nearly naked under the sun. Here’s how this biological tradeoff reshaped how our ...

A rare sample from a woolly rhinoceroses reveals how the population changed in the lead-up to the species’ extinction.

A single thermal performance curve applies across life, from bacteria to animals. Species differ in optimal temperatures, but not in the fundamental shape of their response to heat. Researchers at Tri ...

As Dr. Christopher Bellavita observed in his 2008 article "Changing Homeland Security: What is Homeland Security?", "The ...

Key opportunities lie in next-generation sequencing methods, with hospitals as major end-users and North America as a ...

Humans have been modifying natural environments for millennia, leading to a deep co-evolution between social and natural systems. As a result, areas ...

A mining-machine test on the deep-ocean floor resulted in species diversity declining by roughly 32% in the tracks of the ...

Long before modern medicine named and cataloged human herpesviruses, at least one of them was already quietly embedding ...

Electroactive microbes have emerged as key players at the interface of biology, chemistry, and engineering due to their ...

Four of the nine galaxies in the newly identified "platypus" sample were discovered in NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's ...

At first glance, the insect trapped in golden resin looked like any other tiny victim of deep time. Only under close ...