A recent opinion piece criticizes Denver’s decision to move forward with a single shared-mobility operator. From the ...

Astronomers have discovered how "forever young" stars stay blue and bright despite being almost as old as the universe.

In the early 1990s, Keith Willmott and a friend, both undergraduate students from the United Kingdom, arrived in Ecuador with ...

A tiny tropical flower is challenging a longstanding model for plant evolution. According to researchers at the Field Museum ...

Ever wondered why you won't find kangaroos outside Australia? It all started with massive climate change millions of years ...

Wilmington, DE, Jan. 26, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A new preprint, Six Birds: Foundations of Emergence Calculus, introduces a compact mathematical framework for a question that appears across science ...

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The chin is one of our most familiar features, yet scientists still debate why we evolved it. Here’s a breakdown of what we ...

Hominid footprints found on Crete date back 5.6 million years, making them by far the oldest ever discovered in Europe.

A controversial idea in evolutionary biology argues that genes—not individuals or species—are the true drivers of natural selection, reshaping how scientists explain altruism, behavior, and even the ...

ANN ARBOR—For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and proteins are largely neutral: they're neither good nor bad, but just ...

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