Over 500 million years ago, during the Cambrian period, all major animal phyla appeared rapidly in what is known as the ...

As companies search underwater for resources, scientists are taking inventory of the ocean-dwelling creatures that could be ...

A study by Kristin Winchell (NYU) sequenced the genomes of these reptiles and found 93 specific genes related to limb and skin development that had diverged from forest populations. The city lizards ...

Humans have it. So does Drosophila. But not yeast. That "it" is a small pause at the start of gene activity—a brief molecular halt that may have helped life evolve from simple cells to complex animals ...

Mind-blowing science books offer a staggering look at the secret logic of fungi, the evolution of the human mind, and the ...

Nancy Shute talks about life’s complexities, from its evolution on Earth as a single cell to complex human behavior.

The researchers think the pattern they observed in ants reflects a more universal trend in the evolution of societal ...

In October, the International Society for Artificial Life recognized several SFI researchers and co-authors with the ISAL ...

Up-to-date computational pipeline characterizes G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) repertoires in the closest relatives of metazoans, providing a framework to investigate the evolutionary origins and ...

For much of the past century, science has often been presented as standing in quiet opposition to belief in God. The deeper ...

At the bottom of the world’s trenches, there’s a fish that shouldn’t exist. Here’s how it earned the title of the ...

Life can be scary, and a lot of times we push certain fears aside just to get through the day. But when those fears show up ...