A research team at the IPK Leibniz Institute has developed a method that enables the detailed observation of female ...

Researchers investigating the origin of complex life on Earth might have just made a major breakthrough. The origin of ...

New research challenges the one-level view of evolution, showing natural selection works on individuals and groups together.

Notable investments in cultured meat technology include Mosa Meats in the Netherlands, which raised $43 million last year, and Israel’s Ever After Foods which raised $10 million. London, England-based ...

Symbiotic bacteria living inside insect cells have lost much of their DNA over hundreds of millions of years, much like the ancient microbes that evolved into mitochondria ...

The series will kick off just in time for Black History Month with a program on Charlie Clay, the first African-American ...

In 1990, I finished my PhD on primate evolution and went to my postdoc in Davis, California, USA. It was meant to be on fruit fly ...

A team led by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin has produced what may be the strongest evidence yet that the ancient ancestors of all complex life on Earth already had the genes to use ...

Between 1946 and 1958, the United States detonated 67 nuclear weapons across the Marshall Islands, turning remote Pacific atolls into irradiated proving grounds. Decades later, scientists diving into ...

He was a section chief at the Laboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases at the National Institute of Health’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana.

Centromeres play virtually the same central role across the entire tree of life: They ensure the faithful segregation of ...