A recent study of Heliconius butterflies says that it isn't

Scientists recreate in flies the mutations that let monarch butterflies eat toxic milkweed with impunity

While simple prokaryotic bacteria formed within the first billion years of the Earth, the origin of eurkaryotes, the first cells with nuclei, took much longer.

Raging winds can demolish trees, defoliate entire canopies, and scatter debris across forest floors, radically altering the habitats and reshaping the selective pressures on many organisms

The approach angle is the key

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

Recent study sheds new light on how our epigenetics can regulate genes, some of which are linked to cancer development later in life, over large evolutionary distances

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

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

If researchers can distinguish chromosomes from each other by their centromeres, they can start to carry out functional tests to see if these differences have an impact on which piece of DNA is inherited