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Researchers Find Hurricanes Drive the Evolution of More Aggressive Spiders

August 20, 2019

Raging winds can demolish trees, defoliate entire canopies, and scatter debris across forest floors, radically altering the h...

From the Tiny Testes of Flies, New Insight into How Genes Arise

August 19, 2019

Using fruit flies, a Rockefeller team has gained key insight into how nature's attempts at innovation play out during the dev...

Extinct Caribbean Bird Yields DNA after 2,500 Years in Watery Grave

August 16, 2019

Ancient DNA is a challenging medium because it's in the process of degradation

Bats Use Leaves as Mirrors to Find Prey in the Dark

August 2, 2019

The approach angle is the key

Like Film Editors and Archaeologists, Biochemists Piece Together Genome History

July 30, 2019

Researchers uncover new evidence for the origin of RNA splicing within human genes

Plant Viruses May Be Reshaping Our World

July 18, 2019

Recent advances in the field of virology suggest that viruses play a more significant and complex role than previously apprec...

Fossil of Smallest Old World Monkey Species Discovered in Kenya

July 16, 2019

Research team discovered Nanopithecus browni near Kanapoi, Kenya, far from the habitat of other guenons

Small Horned Dinosaur from China, a Triceratops Relative, Walked on Two Feet

July 15, 2019

With fossils from more than 80 individual dinosaurs, Auroraceratops rugosus, an early horned dinosaur, is one of the best rep...

Ancient Epigenetic Changes Silence Cancer-Linked Genes

July 11, 2019

Recent study sheds new light on how our epigenetics can regulate genes, some of which are linked to cancer development later ...

Can Mathematics Help Us Understand the Complexity of Our Microbiome?

July 4, 2019

How do the communities of microbes living in our gastrointestinal systems affect our health?

A New Normal: Study Explains Universal Pattern in Fossil Record

June 27, 2019

While scientists have long known about an unusual pattern in the fossil record, they have struggled to explain it

Dark Centers of Chromosomes Reveal Ancient DNA

June 21, 2019

If researchers can distinguish chromosomes from each other by their centromeres, they can start to carry out functional tests...

Egg-Sucking Sea Slug from Florida's Cedar Key Named after Muppets Creator Jim Henson

June 20, 2019

Named Olea hensoni, the slug belongs to the sacoglossans, a group of more than 300 species that are such enthusiastic ea...

Trove of Uncovered Genes Could Hold Key to How Humans Evolved

May 28, 2019

Dozens of genes previously thought to have similar roles across species are in fact unique to humans

Bedbugs Evolved More Than 100 Million Years Ago—and Walked the Earth with T. Rex

May 17, 2019

Bedbugs rank high among the list of most unwanted human bedfellows, but until now, little was known about when they first ori...

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