Researchers at Bar-Ilan University reveal protein changes linked to longevity throughout mammalian evolution. Over the past several decades, human lifespan has steadily increased. However, this progre ...

For decades, many scientists have relied on the "hard steps" model to suggest that intelligent life is rare — the improbable ...

A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding ...

Professor Emily Jane McTavish and colleagues at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have mapped the evolution of every known bird ...

The study tracks mammoth evolution over a million years using mitogenomes, showing shifts in diversity and lineage tied to ...

In a remarkable discovery off the rugged coastline of California, researchers have encountered a living coelacanth, a ...

NeoBio, which won a gold honor at the 2025 Edison Awards, makes learning ‘unbelievably exciting,’ according to Michael Crow of Arizona State University.

The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina has awarded ETH Zurich Materials scientist, Nicola Spaldin, the Carus Medal 2024 for her outstanding research work. The award will be presented on 22 ...

Baxter repeatedly declined to say where he would draw the line, prompting Kagan to ask whether "this is a rule that applies ...

The WIAA's decision on girls' flag football highlights contradictions in their policies regarding trans athletes and fairness ...

Ecology is the study of how organisms interact with each other and their environment. It considers processes that occur at the population, community and ecosystem levels and has a particular focus ...

It is a gap in our knowledge, referred to as the black hole at the heart of biology. "The new study ... the researchers modeled the evolution of gene length distributions as multiplicative ...