A team of researchers led by Prof. WANG Wei from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IBCAS) has ...

Chunks of flipped DNA appear to accelerate evolution in fish. This discovery could reshape our understanding of how ...

Zöe Schlanger’s book, "The Light Eaters," corrects many misconceptions about plants. Do you remember hearing that talking to ...

Lamarck's theory of acquired characteristics revisited through epigenetics in a groundbreaking study on cold-adapted rice ...

Parents and communities as a whole often lament the exodus of young people who move away to pursue opportunities that they don’t envision being close to home. Leaving home for college studies or to ...

They also make plant life possible: Vast webs of fungi stretch ... for fungi-plant symbiosis could teach us much about the evolution of both groups, as well as lichen, a hardy composite organism ...

Scientists say they may have finally found evidence of life's hidden rule which helps govern how species spread across the ...

The freezer in the laboratory of Professor of Mycorrhizal Studies Leho Tedersoo contains DNA samples of tens of thousands of ...

Scientists estimate that the first generation of reptiles evolved between 320 and 310 million years ago, this group was later dominated by dinosaurs which paleontologists say they evolved on Earth ...

When most Americans imagine a home, they picture a wood-framed house. But in an era of high housing costs and extreme weather ...

If familiarity breeds contempt, then no wild animal has made itself more loathsome to humanity than the city pigeon. They ...

Discover how snowflake yeast defies expectations, growing exponentially due to physical processes, challenging traditional ...