These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...

A newly discovered promoter element "start" points to a shared regulatory syntax for controlling transcription initiation in ...

Different teams need to make the same conclusion multiple times before a consensus is reached and the finding can be built ...

The study reveals how Balanophora plants function despite abandoning photosynthesis and, in some species, sexual reproduction ...

Different teams need to make the same conclusion multiple times before a consensus is reached and the finding can be ...

Balanophora lost photosynthesis long ago but kept tiny plastids that run key chemistry and shows how forest parasites adapt ...

Today, out of an estimated 1 trillion species on Earth, 99.999 percent are considered microbial - bacteria, archaea, viruses, ...

New genetic research suggests centuries of human persecution may have selected for calmer behavior in Italy's rare Apennine ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution reports that Italian bears living in areas with many villages evolved and ...

Study reveals rising artemisinin resistance in Africa, echoing Asia's past, urging urgent action to prevent widespread crisis ...

Research into wood warblers shows that gene sharing across species played a key role in shaping their bright feather colors.

News about the poaching and smuggling of threatened species often centers on products like tiger bone, rhino horn or pangolin ...