Yale scientists discovered that cavefish species independently evolved blindness and depigmentation as they adapted to dark cave environments, with some lineages dating back over 11 million years.

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The microscopic alliance between algae and bacteria offers rare, step-by-step snapshots of how bacteria lose genes and adapt to increasing host dependence. This is shown by a new study led by ...

This month, George Tiley began his NC State appointment as an assistant professor of plant and microbial biology. Right ...

One of the defining features of humans is our brain’s remarkable capacity for language, planning, memory, creativity, and ...

University of Kansas researcher Gloria Arratia serves as editor and contributor to the just-published first volume of ...

A new fossil study by scientists challenges long-held ideas of fish evolution, revealing surprising insights into early ...

A study led by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz provides the first direct evidence that species that never interact can ...

LIYAM CHITAYAT is a Hertz Fellow and MIT Ph.D. student in Computational Systems Biology. She has previously led biodefense ...

If you have spent time with an infant, you might recognize the scene: A child is wailing, inconsolable, and you, the parent, have to go to the bathroom. Or eat. Or attend to a pot that’s boiling over.

One of the defining features of humans is our brain's remarkable capacity for language, planning, memory, creativity, and more. These abilities stem not just from our large brain size, but also from ...

Learn more about the amblyopsid cavefishes, the eyeless fish that inhabit the caves of eastern North America, whose evolution can uncover the age of difficult-to-date cave systems.