A fish thought to be evolution’s time capsule just surprised scientists. A detailed dissection of the coelacanth — a 400-million-year-old species often called a “living fossil” — revealed that key ...

The global life-sciences sector continues to expand as research organizations, biotechnology companies, and academic institutions increase investment in scientific innovation. As demand for advanced ...

Spanish biologist Ignacio Paulin became fascinated by the behavior of these fish, in a project that could now disappear due ...

Systems-level thinking has transformed how we study life across scales, from molecules and cells to populations, communities ...

Directed evolution is a laboratory technique that mimics natural selection and allows scientists to evolve genes and the proteins they encode. Traditionally, this technique has been used in microbes, ...

Since its creation, the Science of Science (SoS), which takes science as a whole as its object of study, has always been closely linked with the development and evolution of science and technology ...

A new study from the University of Michigan suggests that organisms could get better at evolving over time. Researchers used a computer program to simulate organisms switching between beneficial and ...

Biological evolution is the heritable change in characteristics of biological populations over successive generations, driven by mechanisms such as mutation, recombination, genetic drift, gene flow, ...