Ascending and descending sloping and vertical branches is critical for arboreal locomotion and likely played a major role in early primate evolution. While most studies have focused on ascent, ...
Alternative splicing exhibits lineage-specific variability, with mammals and birds reaching the highest levels despite conserved intron-rich architectures, while unicellular eukaryotes and prokaryotes ...
DNA from a new Bartonella bacterium has been detected in sand flies in the Brazilian Amazon, similar to the strains that ...
This is the last of three blog posts associated with this week’s episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which addresses life in the universe. Read the first and second here. Someday, in the not too ...
A remarkable 151-million-year-old fly fossil found in China is changing our view of insect evolution. This ancient insect, ...
Recent research shows that young children typically manipulate and rotate entire objects in their minds to understand ...
Whether strolling through the woods or taking a rest from outdoor labor, autumn is a time when people contemplate the value ...
Lignins—the complex molecules that make plants sturdy and allow them to grow tall—are not as random as once thought. A new ...
It’s that time of the year. The leaves are starting to change colors. This week the National Weather Service in Atlanta shared the satellite image above showing fall foliage changes in the Appalachian ...
The extinct animal's face structure could help explain how vertebrates, including ourselves, evolved our distinctive look.
Scientists have discovered a "perfect disordered hyperuniform" pattern in how plants arrange themselves across many dry ...