A research team from the University of Bern has shown in a large-scale field experiment that populations of the same fish ...

Feathers provide students the opportunity to explore how the particular form of an object impacts its function.

While attempting to dismiss evidence for observed evolution, the creationist turns to birds whose beaks differ depending on the food available in their environment. He explains that birds with heavier ...

The world's population is shifting. We're living longer than ever before, with elderly people taking up a greater proportion of the people on the planet. And yet those extra years aren't necessarily ...

Sometimes, our preference for certitude, our need to define things with conviction, closes us off from possibility. By Melissa Kirsch When Serena Williams retired from tennis in 2022, she was 40 years ...

NASA had a big – and little – problem. For a small satellite, the agency needed a tiny antenna, with very specific communication capabilities and very strict limits on size and weight. The agency gave ...

The DNA blueprint we carry around with us today has been influenced far more by natural selection than we thought, a massive new study reveals, with gene variants behind red hair and pale skin among ...

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Natural selection has been playing a bigger role in changing modern human DNA than previously thought, according to a new study. geralt via Wikimedia Commons under CC0 Many people are familiar with ...

The whole world could soon be seeing red. Instead of being the punchline, redheads will have the last laugh, as a new study reports that humans have been constantly evolving to have flame-colored hair ...

Tom has a master’s degree in biochemistry from the University of Oxford and his interests range from immunology and microscopy to the philosophy of science.View full profile Tom has a master’s degree ...