The finding "may be the hidden answer to more tectonic mysteries than we’ve previously realized," said geologist Adam Smith.

Jj Measer sits at a computer editing his short film "Pass Time" on Nov. 1, 2024, at the Jonathan B. Murray Center in Columbia. Measer’s film was selected to play during the True/False Film Fest, which ...

A new study finds that a trait helping a marine bacterium survive and flourish today may ultimately become its Achilles Heel as ocean conditions continue to shift.

A recent study published in Science challenged this trend, revising the estimate upward to about 50% by accounting for ...

New pieces have been added to the puzzle of the evolution of some of the oldest fish that lived on Earth more than 400 million years ago. In two separate studies, experts in Australia and China have ...

CT scans also indicate Archaeopteryx had nerve endings in the end of its beak—part of what’s known as a bill-tip organ. Again ...

The discovery of catalytic RNA transformed our understanding of life's beginnings. Clare Sansom explores how the RNA world ...

New study shows how bacteria adapted a virus-derived injection system to recognize and attach to many different types of cells. By systematically ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have identified a photophobic response (light avoidance) in the unicellular ...

Intrinsic neural attractors and extrinsic environmental inputs jointly steer the dynamic trajectories of brain activity ...

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

Tracing the emergence of termites back to cockroaches, scientists have found that termites didn’t become more socially complex by gaining new genes, but by losing them. The findings shed new light on ...