A deep-rooted population structure emerged, suggesting modern humans, Homo sapiens, are the result of a population that split in two about 1.5 million years ago, and then, only 300,000 years ago, ...

Mar. 12, 2025 — A critically endangered new species of killifish sampled from an ancient forest in Kenya in 2017 and 2018 has now been described. Nothobranchius sylvaticus, from the Latin ...

This work has also created a kind of "treasure map" that investigators can use to fill in the gaps in our knowledge. | ...

University of Toronto researchers have discovered nine new genes used by bacteria to protect themselves against ...

Fewer seemingly unimportant daily interactions are more likely to lead to dissatisfaction and financial strain. This often results in a more traditional division of labor—meaning that the female in ...

Mar. 14, 2025 — New research quantifies the health risks of wildland-urban interface fires, showing fire emissions in populated areas are three times more likely to lead to annual premature ...

If we lived in an ordinary time—time here being understood in the long, unhurried sense of a geologic epoch—it would be nearly impossible to watch a species vanish. Such an event would occur ...

Conjugation is a form of horizontal gene transfer that allows the exchange of genetic material between two organisms or cells ...

Imagine 50 years from now a Public Intelligence that was a distributed, open-source, non-commercial artificial intelligence, operated like the internet, and available to the whole world. This public ...

Advances in real-time MS analysis of ambient air have transformed AQM, providing a mechanism to detect and enforce air ...

Plantations have also been connected to the destruction of habitat of endangered species, including orangutans, tigers, elephants, and rhinos. But you don't have to give up products containing palm ...

Failure to agree on global grants to help low- and middle-income countries to achieve net-zero emissions cannot be the end of the story. An urgent solution is needed.