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

Instead, blood appears to have been cobbled together from recycled and upgraded genetic machinery inherited from ...

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

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

When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied in detail. Yet the book’s gene-centred view of evolution still has much to ...

Almost as soon as socialist mayor Katie Wilson took office in January, the graffiti in our city seemed to bloom further, as ...

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

A University of Texas at Austin-led team has reconstructed the most detailed map to date of the molecular machines that ...

For centuries, the dazzling colours and intricate wing designs of butterflies have fascinated people. These insects have an ...

When a child develops kidney failure or a rare bone disorder, the cause can seem painfully immediate. It may be a single ...

Researchers are using paleoproteomics to recover ancient proteins from fossils millions of years old. Studies of dental ...

A new study from Kyoto University in Japan has revealed that the blood pumping ...