A newly discovered fossil of a nearly 600-million-year-old comb jelly ancestor may call for scientists to rethink early animal evolution.
A newly discovered fossil of a nearly 600-million-year-old comb jelly ancestor may call for scientists to rethink early animal evolution.
A new non-profit endeavor is calling for people to get their gut bacteria sequenced for the sake of science.
Newly excavated Australopithecus sediba fossils exhibit a mixture of primitive and more modern features.
Due to statistical errors, a Science paper claiming that mutation is responsible for genetic variation is retracted.
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Exposing the life and work of a visionary and troubled scientist opens a window onto the evolution of altruism.
The Yersinia pestis strain extracted from the bones of Black Death victims may no longer exist.
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