Feb. 27, 2025 — Researchers examined dozens of bird species in museum collections looking for differences in the feathers and bodies between birds that can fly and birds that can't. They found ...

It is a deep question, from deep in our history: when did human language as we know it emerge? A new survey of genomic evidence suggests our unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 ...

The CO₂-based Fuels and Chemicals Conference 2025 in Cologne will celebrate the innovative spirit of the CCU industry by presenting the “Best ...

Feb. 26, 2025 — It's not what you do, it's how readily you do it. Rapid evolutionary change might have more to do with how easily a key innovation can be gained or lost rather than with the ...

NASA's SPHEREx telescope will capture the entire sky and generate colourful images that are currently impossible with existing telescopes.

But does the process itself also change over time, and if so, what would drive the evolution of evolution? In a new paper published Dec. 31, 2024, in the journal PNAS , biologists suggest that ...

Molecular evolution is the area of evolutionary biology that studies evolutionary change at the level of the DNA sequence. It includes the study of rates of sequence change, relative importance of ...

Evolution is the process of heritable change in populations of organisms over multiple generations. Evolutionary biology is the study of this process, which can occur through mechanisms including ...

The work provides the first experimental evidence showing how natural selection can shape genetic systems to enhance future capacity for evolution, challenging traditional perspectives on ...