Untreated tooth decay is Earth’s most common health condition. A biologist explains how farming, sugar and oral bacteria made ...

The theory of evolution by natural selection was first formulated in Darwin’s book “On the Origin of Species” in 1859. It ...

Note: This article is a summary of a casual conversation with the AI assistant 'Muse,' compiled by Muse itself. The author's ...

Individualism is a hallmark of modern society, yet acts of altruism are not uncommon. This paradox that humans often shift ...

One problem is that there's no consensus about what a gene even is. "'Gene' is one of those words in biology that means different things in different corners of the field," Ågren says. And whether ...

How and when did cells gain the ability to crawl? Live imaging of cells from close relatives of early eukaryotes fills in a ...

Over the past 30 years, Swiss barn owls have become more reddish-brown and more heavily spotted. By analyzing the genomes of more than 3,000 birds, scientists at the University of Lausanne identified ...

Why has the yeast Candida auris become a dangerous pathogen worldwide in just a few years? This question is on the minds of many researchers. Carla Schuh and Chaitanya Gokhale from the Biocentre at ...

In the insect world, bigger bodies usually come with bigger body parts. But some ants break this rule in an unexpected way. A massive soldier ant, equipped with an oversized head and powerful jaws, ...

Why does evolution also give rise to "altruistic behavior"?The "selfish gene" is a perspective that views biological ...

A new study traced the forebrain and hindbrain to separate evolutionary lineages, then researchers used that discovery to ...

Evolutionary biologist Paul Hebert revolutionized biodiversity research with DNA barcoding, inspiring a global effort to ...