In the middle of Southeast Asia, where the lush jungles of Borneo and Sulawesi meet the tropical waters of the Pacific, lies ...

A new UC study has looked at the evolutionary significance of super genes and their potential role in species survival.

Picture a primordial Earth: a world of muted browns, grays and greens. Fast forward to today, and Earth teems with a ...

We often talk about water and how important it is to make sure it is clean and unpolluted. But lakes usually fall through the ...

In a new study published in Science, a Belgian research team explores how genetic switches controlling gene activity define brain cell types across species.

Any animal’s eye color is determined by its levels of two melanin pigments: eumelanin, which makes brown-black, and ...

The fossilized remains were discovered in the Sterkfontein Caves in South Africa, a site renowned for its wealth of hominid ...

A single gene in the shorebird species known as ruffs controls the levels of testosterone in males, and this in turn affects ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

In this episode of Weekly podcast, we speak to three experts who study different ways that people are affecting how plants and animals evolve – and how humanity has become the single biggest driver of ...

Enabling devices to perceive and interpret their surroundings in a more sophisticated manner.