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 ...

Developmental and synthetic biologist Michael Levin redefines what life really is, how intelligence works, and what the ...

Plants are anchored in one spot, but they are cunning. They have mastered the art of enticing more mobile organisms to do ...

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

All animals, plants ... of early complex life. “It’s really quite substantial and really does change how we view the evidence for biomarkers and eukaryotic evolution,” says Emily Mitchell ...

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 ...

Apes lived in this changing environment, which helped shape their evolution.Their behavior and diet were influenced by the ...

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 ...