Two newly described fossils suggest that wood is some 10 million years older than previous believed.
Two newly described fossils suggest that wood is some 10 million years older than previous believed.
A new exhibit at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia celebrates the work of an artist who is also the world’s authority on grasshoppers and crickets.
A conversation with Dan Otte, a South African artist and curator of entomology at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. Otte also happens to have discovered around 20 percent of the cricket species known to date.
Scientists discover that ancestors of the unicellular fungi can synthesize essential biomolecules with only trace levels of O2.
Mothers more likely to have twins have heavier, healthier non-twin babies, possibly explaining why twinning evolved.
More than 100 researchers have left a neuroscience institute in Brazil in the last couple of weeks, protesting managerial problems they say are thwarting their work.
Researchers use directed evolution to create a bacterial strain that substitutes a synthetic base for thymine.
The United Kingdom is revamping its intellectual property laws for published research.
A new educational framework swaps breadth of scientific disciplines for depth and emphasizes the process of science.
Pro-evolution bumper stickers and emblems are being removed from the cars of biologists in Florida.