In a quiet freshwater pond in Ibaraki Prefecture near Tokyo, researchers have pulled from the water a microscopic giant that is forcing biologists to rethink how complex life began. The newly ...

Scientists have uncovered a 400-million-year-old genetic secret that gave spiders the ability to produce silk and weave their ...

Centralized migration accelerates adaptation and drives parallel evolution, emphasizing the key influence of spatial organization on evolutionary dynamics across systems from pathogen transmission to ...

Francis Collins, former director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the National Human Genome Project, combined secular thought and religious beliefs at a BYU forum address on Jan. 27.

Imagine someone digs you up in 15,000 years and discovers what you had for lunch the day that you died. That’s more or less ...

About 14,400 years ago, a weeks-old wolf puppy ate its last meal — meat from a woolly rhinoceros — shortly before dying on the harsh Ice Age landscape of northeastern Siberia.

Lab-grown life has taken a dramatic leap forward after scientists used artificial intelligence to create a virus that has ...

A 5,500-year-old genome of Treponema pallidum recovered from Colombia has revealed that syphilis-causing bacteria circulated in the Americas millennia before agriculture, undermining the ...

A wolf pup sealed in Siberian permafrost carried a surprise more revealing than a museum label. Inside its stomach, ...

An ancient ancestor of spiders and relatives doubled its genome about 400 million years ago, setting the stage for the ...

Genetic analyses of koala pedigrees help to suss out virus-induced genome changes that affect cancer risk and reproductive ...

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...