Researchers found LUCA, our earliest common ancestor, lived 4.2 billion years ago. It had a complex biology, affecting its ...

Mutations fuel evolution while also causing diseases like cancer. Epigenome-targeted DNA repair can help organisms protect important genomic regions from mutation. However, the adaptive value, ...

Scientists report adaptive divergence in cryptic color pattern is underlain by two distinct, complex chromosomal rearrangements, where millions of bases of DNA were flipped backwards and moved from ...

While rare, a few birds we studied were rule-breakers. One such rule-breaker is the Eurasian spoonbill, whose highly ...

“Seeing those images is deeply traumatic,” said Zawatsky, CEO of The Tree of Life, the group established ... “It’s not for me to answer that,” he said. The governor has publicly ...

PARIS, France (AFP) — Astronomers announced Thursday that they had detected the most promising “hints” of potential life on a planet beyond our solar system, though other scientists ...

Welcome to Shelf Life, ELLE.com’s books column, in which authors share their most memorable reads. Whether you’re on the hunt for a book to console you, move you profoundly, or make you laugh ...

Over my forty years or so in and around dealing rooms and financial markets, I have heard many theories as to how to approach that problem and have settled on a process that has worked for me ...

and the answer could even lead to finally figuring out how life on earth began. When it comes to exploring space, every time scientists uncover or learn one thing, it does seem to answer 100 more ...

Artificial intelligence and phylogenetics helped scientists revise the evolutionary timeline of bacteria.