Highways and byways are among the man-made environmental alterations driving the evolution of animals on contemporary timescales, with implications for ecology.
Highways and byways are among the man-made environmental alterations driving the evolution of animals on contemporary timescales, with implications for ecology.
Raising one evolutionary question after another, Brandon Gaut has harvested a crop of novel findings about how plant genomes evolve.
Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia. Age: 34
Turning cell phones into basic research tools can improve health care in the developing world.
Researchers use DNA from ancient tooth tartar to chart changes in the bacterial communities that have lived in human mouths for 8,000 years.
Yale University evolutionary biologist Steven Brady studies the evolutionary impacts of roads on the amphibians.
As new infections surface and spread, science meets the challenges with ingenuity and adaptation.
Despite cicadas’ high profile, scientists still don’t fully understand when and why they decide it is time to mate.
Researchers discover a microbe living at -15°C, the coldest temperature ever reported for bacterial growth, giving hope to the search for life elsewhere in the cosmos.
Chilly weather could impede the immune reactions that most effectively contain viruses like the common cold.