A duplicated gene evolved into a switch that determines sex in frogs, revealing how evolution can safely reshape critical ...

In most cases, evolution is a pretty slow process, taking hundreds if not thousands of years—but when humans enter the picture, some animals have to evolve at light speed in order to survive in a ...

Readers are spoiled for choice when it comes to popular science reading this month, with new titles by major names including Maggie Aderin and Michael Pollan ...

The curious minds at What If reveal the truth about human and chimpanzee evolution, comparing genomes, behavior, and evolutionary divergence.

The idea sounded sensible at the time. Sugar plantations were losing money to rats, who were chewing through crops and ...

Around 540 million years ago, Earth's biosphere underwent a pivotal transformation, shifting from a microbe-dominated world ...

The explosion in data quantity has kept the marriage of computing and statistics thriving through successive hype cycles: “big data,” “data science,” and now “AI.” ...