Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

In the most comprehensive global analysis of genetic diversity ever undertaken, an international team of scientists has found that the genetic diversity is being lost across the globe but that ...

Scientists recreated the origins of one of life's most important partnerships, uncovering how symbiotic relationships can ...

The size of human beings has increased over the past century thanks to better health and nutrition — but this change has not ...

Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the ...

Evolution is complex and difficult to study, but TraitTrainR, a new software package developed by the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, offers researchers a better way to simulate how ...

Study reveals how human history—from Indigenous stewardship to colonization—shaped the genetic diversity of Brazil Nut trees ...

"The detection of these key building blocks of life in the Bennu samples supports the theory that asteroids and their fragments seeded the early Earth with the raw ingredients that led to the ...

Fathers exposed to high stress in childhood had different epigenetic markers that may affect their offspring, though more research is needed.

Melbourne researchers have discovered crucial new information about how microbes consume huge amounts of carbon monoxide (CO) ...

How cells utilize electric fields to guide their migration during embryonic development. As an embryo develops, cells ...