A recent study by Harvard reveals that the evolutionary transition to an upright posture in mammals was complex and occurred ...

Charles Darwin is famous for proposing the theory of evolution by natural selection, but how much more do you know about the ...

Nov. 4, 2024 — A research team has discovered two remarkable species of bacteria in the tissue of two deep-sea corals from the Gulf of Mexico. These previously unknown symbionts of the corals ...

Yimga Ouonkap is a research associate in molecular biology, cell biology, and biochemistry at Brown. Ouonkap noted that the ...

The Microbiology Society is pleased to announce the winners of our 2025 Prizes, which will be awarded at Society’s Annual Conference 2025 in Liverpool from 31 March – 3 April, where the winners will ...

In the sunbaked Galápagos Islands, a male finch perches on a branch, hearing what sounds like another bird’s song. But ...

Biologists at Brown University found what makes some types of tomatoes more heat tolerant, yielding insights that could help ...

New research is shedding light on mysterious sleep mechanisms in an unexpected source: the Australian dragon lizard.

Survival of the fittest’ is Darwin 101. But did you know that Charles Darwin didn’t actually coin that phrase? Let’s explore ...

Political scientist Kevin Smith says his research suggests “political orientations are at least partially under genetic ...

The results, published Nov. 7 in Current Biology, reveal that some of the stories told for decades about the individuals’ ...

It’s not just the cold and Christmas cookies. Here’s the biology of why winter makes people sleepier, hungrier, and even ...