Long before the invention of agriculture, humans already knew how to process cereals and other wild plants into a flour suitable for food –
A new study by experts from the University of Exeter has found that genetic improvement is underlying the increasing speed of Britain’s thoroughbreds.
The expanded genetic reference, created by a research team that includes Yale scientists, will inform medical advances that benefit all ancestry groups.
The ancestors of many animal species alive today may have lived in a delta in what is now China, new research suggests.
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed and demonstrated a new technique for controlling directed evolution in bacteria.
About 200 million years ago, much of Europe was transformed by a huge flood. What had been land, occupied by early dinosaurs and other reptiles, was covered by shallow seawater, from Poland in the east to Wales and south-west England in the west.
Researchers, led by the University of Bristol, have shown that the earliest jaws in the fossil record were caught in a trade-off between maximising their strength and their speed.
In a recent paper, an international group of scientists presented experimental data on E. coli genes, examining how the theory of a fitness landscape model corresponds to the reality of a rugged landscape, one with many peaks and valleys.
The University of Zurich recently released a study that shows that chimpanzees, the closest living relatives to humans, have a culture that is much more like ours than previously known.
A team of researchers led by Dr. Michael Waters from Texas A&M University has identified the oldest bone weapon ever found in the Americas.
The modern dynthesis view that random genetic mutations and natural selection drive evolution has predominated in science for almost a century. More recently, experimental evidence, made possible by advanced technological methods, is challenging this view.
The diverse swimming techniques of the ancient reptiles that ruled the Mesozoic seas have been revealed for the first time by scientists at the University of Bristol.
A North Carolina State University study suggests that cover crops – or crops grown in between cash-crop seasons – can help keep Midwestern soil drier and healthier, thereby preventing losses incurred when farmers can’t plant cash crops because of flooding or excessive soil moisture.
Researchers have demonstrated techniques that provide unprecedented detail into how materials behave when exposed to a range of stresses, including shear stress.
Increased time at home due to coronavirus lockdowns may have supported the communication development of bilingual autistic children, a new study argues.
An international group of scientists has tested the nearly neutral theory of evolution, proposed in 1973 by Japanese geneticist Tomoko Ohta. He predicted that natural selection will have a different evolutionary effect on species depending on the organism's population size.
Satellites and drones can provide key information to protect pollinators, researchers say.
Gene duplication increased the diversity and specificity of enzymes that enable beetle larvae to degrade important wood components.
Models that predict traffic volume for specific times and places are used to inform everything from traffic-light patterns to the app on your phone that tells you how to get from Point A to Point B.
Researchers from North Carolina State University and Texas Tech University have developed a straightforward questionnaire that older adults can use to assess their “attentional performance” during driving.