There might be a type of exoplanet without dry land. They’re called “Hycean” worlds, a portmanteau of ‘hydrogen’ and ‘ocean.’ ...

A century after the Scopes trial, hopeful prospects beckon for teaching the unifying principle of the biological sciences in ...

This new approach, based on natural selection, dramatically improves the reliability of large language models for practical ...

The Kowalinski group at EMBL Grenoble discovered notable differences between the nuclear cap-binding complex in trypanosomes and humans, a critical component in cellular RNA metabolism. Trypanosomes ...

An international research team has discovered various mechanisms in asexual mites that generate genetic diversity and thus ...

Humans' increasingly large footprint across the planet is forcing plants & animals to adapt and is affecting some species' evolutionary path.

Neurobiological emergentism” explains how sentience—the subjective feeling aspects of consciousness—developed in ancient animals that evolved the first complex neural systems.

Evolution is the basis of biological diversity, driven by mechanisms that allow organisms to adapt and survive. One such ...

The suckers are also packed with sensory receptors that allow the octopus to taste and smell things that they touch—like combining a hand with a tongue and a nose. The researchers believe the ...

Is there only one optimal configuration an organism can reach during evolution? Is there a single formula that describes the ...

The genes that build the cartilage of fish gills were repurposed to build the cartilage in mammals’ outer ears ...