Artificial intelligence has just redrawn the map of our genome’s control room, revealing hundreds of thousands of tiny DNA ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil electrified the ...

Polar bears are running out of ice and out of time, yet inside their cells something remarkable is happening. As the Arctic ...

The vampire squid’s massive genome is revealing a deep evolutionary link once thought lost to time. You won’t believe where ...

A major evolutionary theory says most genetic changes don’t really matter, but new evidence suggests that’s not true. Researchers found that helpful mutations happen surprisingly often. The twist is ...

Gut bacteria rapidly adapt to processed food additives, revealing how modern diets can reshape microbial evolution worldwide.

“Many people equate plants with photosynthesis, yet Balanophora illustrates that being a plant does not require being green,” ...

Researchers find Apennine brown bears evolved into a smaller, less aggressive animal after centuries of coexistence with ...

The field of plant–microbe interactions has seen remarkable transformation with the recognition that plants harbour diverse microbial communities—including ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

Four billion years ago, Earth was violent, hot, and unstable. Yet new research suggests that by then, life had already ...