Lynn Margulis, an innovative thinker who proposed symbiosis as a major mechanism for speciation, passed away last week.
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A team of paleontologists is racing to recover dozens of fossilized whale skeletons from the site of a road building excavation in northern Chile.
The Human Society is still concerned that a US primate research center of illegally breeding federally-owned chimpanzees.
The US science funding agency unveils a new grant program that does away with external peer review.
A video of thousands of birds flying as a single coordinated, amorphous group stirs up questions about how they do it.
As the Turkish government threatens the autonomy of a research institution, its scientists threaten to leave.
Women of the French families that colonized Canada in the 17th and 18th centuries had more children and grandchildren than late comers to the region.
A fossilized jaw bone and teeth from Western Europe are recognized as the oldest modern human fossils recovered in the region.
Despite the down economy, universities are ramping up their efforts to commercialize their research.
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