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Cyanobacteria—ancient microbes that oxygenated Earth and made complex life possible—are still revealing surprises billions of ...

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The bacterial flagellar motor is finally understood after 50 years. In its workings, columnist Natalie Wolchover finds the ...

A study finds an increase in redheads over 10,000 years due to natural selection, highlighting ongoing human evolution and ...

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...

AI is making waves in health care and medicine. Does the technology have the potential for breakthroughs in how we tackle ...

Two unrelated groups of nectar eaters, hummingbirds and sunbirds, have evolved different techniques to slurp the sweet liquid ...

A common element in “Star Trek” and other science fiction is their depiction of humanoid alien species. If life exists ...

The human body is full of evolutionary compromises. The loss of the tail may be one of the clearest examples of how change ...

New research is significantly revising a widely cited evolutionary model, the Inhibitory Cascade Mode (ICM). Benjamin Auerbach, professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the ...