Properly deciphering the branching pathways of evolution could unlock the history of every component of natural biology.

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Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the ...

A study on Indo-European languages, using direct linguistic data, reconciles the two dominant hypotheses of where and how ...

New breakthroughs in microbial analysis could enhance disease prediction, environmental protection and our understanding of the planet’s smallest life forms.

Benjamin Barakat’s award-winning astrophotograph reveals Socotra’s surreal bottle tree beneath a pristine Milky Way ...

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

Our culture has lost something special with the rise of the artificial tree and the fall of so many Christmas tree farms, ...