More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

This study provides a valuable new resource to investigate the molecular basis of the particular features characterizing the pipefish embryo. The authors found both unique and shared gene expression ...

Garland Science, 2003, £35.00, pp 458. ISBN 9-780815-341857 With the near completion of the human genome sequence, and the exponential increase in associated information on inter-individual ...

Kelsey Grammer recently revealed to the New York Post the reason why he had a 30-year falling out with “Cheers” co-star Ted ...

Methods: In this study, we estimated the synonymous evolutionary rate (SER) across the SARS-CoV-2 genome and used it to infer the relationship between the viral RNA and host protein. We also assessed ...

Despite an extended dry spell followed by several days of intense rain, trees are holding up in the East Bay, an arborist ...

In a year that will see many AI achievements and battles, let’s not forget that not all AI research makes the front pages.

An international team of scientists has modeled the formation and evolution of the strongest magnetic fields in the universe.

Evolution of pathogens lies at the core of this crisis ... and related bacterial fitness have to be extended to a broader context in which the (environmental) transmissibility of human pathogens and ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across ...

15, 2025 — The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life ... DNA extracted from human skeletal remains, a team ...