An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The ...

Biologists studying convergent evolution — the process where unrelated species develop similar traits — suggest that ...

A remarkable 151-million-year-old fly fossil found in China is changing our view of insect evolution. This ancient insect, ...

A University of Michigan researcher has discovered an early innovation in the way fish eat. A scientist from the University of Michigan has helped uncover the earliest evidence of a tongue-like biting ...

A chance discovery in a Vermont cheese cave has given scientists a rare glimpse of evolution unfolding in real time – and the unexpected findings have broad implications for protecting human health, ...

"Our results emphasize the role of manipulative abilities in brain evolution and reveal how neural and bodily adaptations are interconnected in primate evolution," the researchers conclude in the ...

1. Comparative biochemistry and evolution of milk oligosaccharides of monotremes, marsupials, and eutherians / Tadasu Urashima, Michael Messer and Olav T. Oftedal -- 2. Genomics-based insights into ...

Some colorful lizards and a mathematical formula from the finance sector have been used to build a new framework to model ...

Researchers at Scripps have created T7-ORACLE, a powerful new tool that speeds up evolution, allowing scientists to design and improve proteins thousands of times faster than nature. Using engineered ...