Humans influence the evolution of plants and animals. Sometimes actively, sometimes indirectly. The case of the Tube mosquito ...

An evolutionary architecture strategy ensures rapid responses to unforeseen events. Autonomously acting teams make informed ...

An Australian study has shed light on a pest you’ve probably hosted at some point – and it has unearthed a new theory about ...

A paper published by URI researchers reveals key mechanisms in speciation in corals. Critically threatened by climate change, a better understanding of coral biology will help efforts to conserve and ...

Protein evolution plays a key role in many biological processes that are essential for life – but what does it have to do with physics? Schematic overview of procedure used to generate simulated ...

A new study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison provides the first empirical evidence connecting the chromosomal location of genes to natural selection, indicating the arrangement of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. There’s an important concept in evolutionary biology called ...

When Aristotle claimed that humans differ from other animals because they have the ability to be rational, he understood rational to mean that we could form our views and beliefs based on evidence, ...

Five years ago, during 2020 Battery Day, Tesla unveiled the 4680 cells as the most advanced battery tech in the world. However, CEO Elon Musk now regrets he pursued the dry battery electrode process, ...

A new technical paper titled “Process-Induced Warpage Behavior in Backside Power Delivery Network Fabrication” was published by researchers at Korea University and Georgia Institute of Technology. “As ...

A crushed ancient skull may hold clues to the origins of ancient humans. Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, ...