The rise of copulation as a vertebrate reproductive strategy may have driven crucial evolutionary change and explosive species radiation.
The rise of copulation as a vertebrate reproductive strategy may have driven crucial evolutionary change and explosive species radiation.
How photosynthetic organisms get taken up, passed around, and discarded throughout the eukaryotic domain
Comparing gene transcripts from different species reveals surprising splicing diversity.
This year, US politics was dominated by the run-up to October elections, with science policy issues playing a role here and elsewhere around the world.
This year’s roundup of bad behavior in the life sciences and new initiatives to prevent misconduct
An official investigation into a controversial GM rice study carried out with Chinese schoolchildren has resulted in the removal of three China-based researchers.
Archaea packages DNA around histones in a similar way to eukaryotes, suggesting that fitting a large genome into a small space was not the original role of chromatin.
The poxvirus stockpiles genes when it needs to adapt.
Nominated as a write-in candidate as a protest against the anti-science incumbent, famed naturalist Charles Darwin won 4,000 congressional votes in a Georgia county.