Researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge have discovered a ribozyme that is shockingly small, yet capable of the fundamental steps of self-replication. They call it QT45 — ...

Microbiologists Patrick Moreira and Purificación López-García, together with virologists Arturo Ludmir and Lynn Enquist, are ...

New plankton arrived just a few millennia — maybe even decades — after the Chicxulub asteroid, forcing a rethink of evolution's catastrophe response speed.

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

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Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection transformed biology and continues to guide modern science, from ...

University of Michigan researchers built a modular robot to isolate how limb proportions affect animal locomotion and energy use. Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a modular, ...

Dashiell Hammett mentioned Sam Spade's jutting chin in the opening sentence of his novel, "The Maltese Falcon." Spade's chin ...

A new study out of the University of Hawaii at Manoa is giving scientists a possible glimpse into the future of reefs in ...

Ghost hogs” are running wild near the Fukushima nuclear plant. Their genes show an evolution that has jumped several ...

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We are delighted to introduce the special issue of Journal of Systematics and Evolution on the Himalayas. This issue features 11 cutting-edge studies that employ genomic approaches to explore this ...