The Long-Term Evolution Experiment (LTTE) tries to answer questions about evolution and how the process of natural selection ...

“Many people equate plants with photosynthesis, yet Balanophora illustrates that being a plant does not require being green,” ...

Evolution is slow, but with the right experimental set-up—and enough time to spare—you can watch nature do its methodical ...

Why did humans evolve the eyes we have today? While scientists can't go back in time to study the environmental pressures ...

A major evolutionary theory says most genetic changes don’t really matter, but new evidence suggests that’s not true. Researchers found that helpful mutations happen surprisingly often. The twist is ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

Drug development in biotechnology takes time. A lot of time. On average, it takes 10 to 15 years to take a medicine from initial discovery to approval for patient use. For patients, that means waiting ...

The world of Fallout is filled with all manner of monsters, and one group, in particular, got its start thanks to the Forced ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool making, this year has given us a clearer picture of how and why humans evolved ...

One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they ...

Ph.D. candidate Yuchen Lian (LIACS) wants to understand why human languages look the way they do—and find inspiration to ...

Deep beneath the surface in China, the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is redefining our understanding of ...