Researchers warn that if this trend continues, entire species could disappear, leading to the collapse of ecosystems. A new ...

Scientists have long believed they understood how life’s genetic code evolved, but new research upends that assumption. By ...

Protein Shapes Can Help Untangle Life's Ancient History Jan. 15, 2025 — The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of ...

“People working in different time slices had basically given different names to the same kind of microfossils, obscuring their long evolutionary ... the eukaryotic Tree of Life (eTOL).

When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

The protein was then synthesized and tested in the lab. It glowed—a clear sign of success. The AI had effectively charted a ...

Evolution doesn’t always move inextricably forward, instead sometimes taking the occasional detour or even getting stuck in never-ending circles. In Madison, Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota, bacteria ...

Evolution doesn’t always move inextricably forward, instead sometimes taking the occasional detour or even getting stuck in never-ending circles. In Madison, Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota, bacteria evolves ...

Living matter remains the quintessential puzzle of biological sciences, a question that embodies the intricate complexity and stunning diversity of life forms. A new study suggests that one viable ...

How life evolved is one of the central questions in science and has fascinated humans for centuries. Early Earth was undoubtedly a harsh environment, but we know surprisingly little about the ...

“Each growth layer that they put on every year contains a bit of the air from that year, transformed into carbon, and so the tree physically holds the years and years of the life of the city ...