The gene encoding an enzyme from a firefly, discovered at the Sorocaba campus of the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar ...

A new study sheds light on how prehistoric hunter-gatherer populations in Europe coped with climate changes over 12,000 years ...

Bonobos—our closest living relatives—create complex and meaningful combinations of calls resembling the word combinations of ...

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed the first-ever method of detecting ribonucleic acid, or RNA, ...

Our environment is changing rapidly, largely as a result of human activities, leading to a significant decline in ...

Antibiotic resistance tends to stabilize over time, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens ...

Microbial organisms dominate life on Earth, but tracing their early history and evolution is difficult because they rarely ...

Most of us like to believe we would have opposed the rise of Nazism in 1930s Germany. We may even like to imagine that we ...

A Michigan State University researcher saw X-rays coming from a black hole using the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope ...

Why do some animals solve problems while others don't? The new study from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, ...

Even before President Donald Trump took office, university presidents expressed concern about the impact of his agenda on ...