The Hidden Palace, a group of game preservationists, has released a beta version of Spore (2008) that's dated six months before the final version of the game.

Bacteria form teams to hunt and survive, but lazy cheaters always try to freeload without contributing. Groundbreaking IISc ...

Microbes often display cooperative behavior in which individual cells put in work and sacrifice resources to collectively ...

Microbes often display cooperative behaviour in which individual cells put in work and sacrifice resources to collectively benefit the group. But ...

Even bacteria face freeloaders, but what happens when survival is on the line? The findings will surprise you as Indian ...

Bark beetles convert spruce tree defenses into more potent antimicrobials to protect themselves, but a fungus can neutralize ...

At first glance, the insect trapped in golden resin looked like any other tiny victim of deep time. Only under close ...

Evolutionarily speaking, the ultimate goal of a lifeform is to reproduce and stave off extinction. Many plants and animals ...

A fungus that turns spiders into zombies sounds like something straight out of a horror movie. Both arachnophobes and people ...

Molecular evolution is the area of evolutionary biology that studies evolutionary change at the level of the DNA sequence. It includes the study of rates of sequence change, relative importance of ...

Plant evolution is the subset of evolutionary phenomena that concern plants. The study of plant evolution includes the study of genetic change and the variations that result in speciation. Here, the ...