Beneficial mutations happen quite frequently, but the world changes too fast for them to stick.

Donald Hoffman’s interface theory claims space-time may be more like a VR dashboard than reality itself—and some physics may ...

Imagine slipping into a multiplayer VR version of Grand Theft Auto, racing cars against players scattered across the world.

If plants had never learned to grow in multiple directions, our world would look very different. No trees, flowers, or other ...

How did life make the leap from single cells to coordinated, multicellular organisms? And how do genetically identical cells ...

Fire salamanders—one of Europe's most well-researched amphibians—are biofluorescent, which means they can absorb light from ...

A remarkable fossil hidden in a museum collection for decades is helping scientists rethink one of the biggest mysteries in ...

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have identified a previously unknown protein that may help explain how plants ...

All-female species have been long thought of as evolutionary dead ends – but one fish has defied the odds to live without males, revealing new clues to how genomes stay healthy.

Fungi may have shaped Earth’s landscapes long before plants appeared. By combining rare gene transfers with fossil evidence, researchers have traced fungal origins back nearly a billion years earlier ...

Ötzi the Iceman, Europe’s most famous mummy, is crawling with microbes, some long dead, some still eking out a living after ...

The Illustrated Story of Life, biologist Christian Sardet invites readers on a vivid journey to appreciate the origin and ...