Evolutionary biologist Huang Shi argues that lack of genetic diversity among East Asians suggests they are real ancestors of modern humans The long-held theory of human evolution says that modern ...

A marine heat wave has killed approximately half of Alaska’s common murre population, marking the largest recorded die-off of a single species in modern history, research has found.

Wickedly addictive, the iNaturalist app identifies unfamiliar species you find on your travels or in your backyard. And it ...

Atlantic and Baltic herring are typical plankton-eating fish of central importance for the northern Atlantic Ocean and Baltic ...

One such technology is the Genetic Modification (GM) technology, which agricultural research scientists consider as one of the tools that can contribute in mitigating the effects of climate change on ...

Most adults living in poverty are working multiple jobs and still not making enough, writes Syracuse's deputy mayor. The ...

Weizmann Institute researchers have developed a new way to track the culprit – giant viruses – and identify their traces in specific types of tiny algae that they attack.

As the Atlantic grew wider, the ancestral population of all of today's oaks may have been straddling the continents of the ...

Chromatin is a combination of DNA and proteins that makes up the chromosomes in the cells of humans and other higher ...

Drought is projected to affect 75% of the world's population by 2050. Take that in. ‘Drylands’ now make up nearly half of all ...

In a region of Florida known as the River of Grass, John Kominoski plops into hip-deep waters. Blobs of brown periphyton – a ...