American naturalist Louis Agassiz had a zeal for collecting that encouraged a nation to engage with nature.
American naturalist Louis Agassiz had a zeal for collecting that encouraged a nation to engage with nature.
Discoveries of microbial communities that transfer electrons between cells and across relatively long distances are launching a new field of microbiology.
Researchers find zero evidence for Lyme-induced autism.
Double helix celebrates 60; detecting calories without taste; bacteria vs. tumor; perceptual consciousness in babies
Better health care in Gambian villages lead to flip-flopping selection pressures on height and weight.
One of the surviving UK homes of pioneering but long-overlooked evolutionary theorist Alfred Russel Wallace is on the market.
Rodents and fruit flies appear to be able to sense nutrients even when they can’t taste the food they’re eating. Now, researchers are trying to figure out how.
A new study suggests that in the Spanish Habsburg royal family, natural selection may have diminished the most harmful effects of inbreeding.
A newly developed drug, modeled after a bacteria-infecting virus, is less likely to become antibiotic resistant.