evolution

In many ways, Madagascar is a biologist's dream, a real-life experiment in how isolation on an island can spark evolution. About 90% of the plants and…

For something so routine, walking is shockingly complicated. Biomechanists break a single step into several phases: First there’s touchdown, when your heel…

A ransomware operator has created a fake website of one of its victims and used it to publish sensitive content stolen in a ransomware (opens in new tab)…

As far as metaphors for change go, this is a potent one. Yet when we think about the future and the change we might want to make, the natural world provides…

The UK's national synchrotron facility, Diamond Light Source, was used by a large, international collaboration to study grains collected from a near-Earth…

Gamma-ray bursts are the most luminous explosions in the universe, allowing astrologists to observe intense gamma rays in short durations. Gamma-ray bursts…

Berlin, Nevada, is a treasure chest for paleontologists. Just down the road from now-abandoned gold and silver mines, a rockbound collection of bones hints…

Schematic diagram of surface/subsurface damage and material removal behavior of MgF2…

The boss battles in the God of War series were analyzed via the game-refinement…

The infant universe transforms from a featureless landscape to an intricate web in a new supercomputer simulation of the cosmos’s formative years.…