As a Ph.D. student, I wanted to understand the evolution of individual differences in fruit fly behavior—the building blocks ...

A simple change in species composition can impact the course of evolution: A research team from the University of Bern and the University of British Columbia in Canada shows that the presence of just ...

Genetic information in cancer cells reveals the strength of cancer–immune interactions in an individual-based stochastic model, which captures explicit interactions between cancer and effector cells.

A conversation with the legendary evolutionary thinker and archaeologist, Eudald Carbonell. By Jan Ritch-Frel and Deborah ...

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Scientists have confirmed that the Atlas blue butterfly carries the most chromosomes of any animal, with 229 pairs. Unlike duplication, its chromosomes split apart, reshaping its genome in surprising ...

Toward the end of the tour, the visitor comes to a comparatively barren-looking experiment called the Landscape Evolution Observatory ... gave a biological boost to the chemical and geological process ...

We have long been told that AI will create more jobs than it destroys, but will these optimistic predictions come to pass?

In cellular automata, simple rules create elaborate structures. Now researchers can start with the structures and reverse-engineer the rules. Alexander Mordvintsev showed me two clumps of pixels on ...

Directed evolution is a laboratory method that speeds up protein mutations to help create novel cancer and neurodegenerative disorder therapies. In a new study, scientists detail a method called ...