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A team of researchers in France are building on fundamental experimental research undertaken in the Ukrainian Chornobyl ...
The venture, privately funded to start, is now run by the University of Arizona. And today, scientists there are quietly ...
Human testicles are much smaller, in proportion, to some of our primate cousins. Evolution can tell us why. But the size of ...
If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...
As I show in my new book, The Tree of Life, we are still searching for the answers to many of these “why” questions. But we are starting to find answers to some of them. The story of evolution tells ...
One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in ...
One hundred years ago, on July 10, 1925, the trial of John T. Scopes began.
What can a tiny wasp with a rather gruesome parasitic life cycle teach us about evolution, behavior and human developmental ...
Some fruit trees are notorious for producing a big crop one year and a much smaller crop the next. Here's what to know and ...
As the famous Scopes trial, a landmark case out of Dayton, Tennessee, celebrates its centennial anniversary, themes of the case continue to be felt today.
Scientists have discovered Sukunaarchaeum mirabile, a unique archaeon residing within marine plankton, challenging traditional definitions of life. Th ...