Trees get most of the love, but diatoms, a group of photosynthetic microalgae, produce 20% of Earth's oxygen and are the ...

Long before DNA unraveled the double helix of life, scientists were already tinkering with its inheritance. The idea that ...

Chinese research team's investigation into cold-tolerant rice varieties revives largely-forgotten 19th century 'giraffe ...

Matt Ridley’s “Birds, Sex and Beauty” explores how mate choice and aesthetics drive evolution, blending lyrical nature writing with deep biological insight.

Biologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have released the first broad-scale, comparative, fine-grained analysis linking the amplitude, or volume, of a bird's song to its vocal frequency, ...

Darwin would have been amazed, for example, to learn that the continents ... corpulent physique—who developed his own early theory of evolution. (It was more purely conceptual than Charles ...

Current planetary crises, from climate change to famine, epidemic disease, and overpopulation, starkly inform us that we are not managing our evolution well. A rogue state like North Korea holds up a ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Charles Darwin justified short odds in the Coolmore Stud The Antarctic Race over five furlongs at Naas to stay on course for a trip to Royal ...