New research challenges the view that proteins are the only key to evolution, highlighting the importance of lipids.

A wild ginger has a clever trick up its sleeve to lure in pollinators. No, it's not a sweet fragrance that fills the air, but ...

Where “biological evolution” in the current standards ... as personal views and not representative of the university, UI chemical and biochemical engineering professor Charles Stanier said ...

The study demonstrates that machine learning algorithms, inspired by biological morphological evolution, significantly ...

Some plants have evolved a surprising strategy to attract pollinators—not with sweet fragrances, but with the stench of ...

New science shows age reversal may be within reach by targeting cellular aging mechanisms and restoring youthful biological ...

A molecule detected on a planet 124 light-years away is produced on Earth by decaying phytoplankton and other microbes. There is no other known source.

But biology is always playing out in a context. And the context we live in today is changing faster than any gene can keep up with. That’s why social evolution—the evolution of our cultural ...

How do fish survive in the extreme conditions of the deep sea—amid icy cold, darkness, and immense water pressure? A genomic study provides surprising answers: A single mutated gene might have ...

Crown-of-thorns have evolved chemical defenses in the form of toxic spines ... Our large brains and capacity for complex language allow cultural evolution to supplement biological evolution, ...

Perhaps the single most important question in this field though is how genetic information first emerged; how does a chemical system ... origins and early evolution of folding proteins remain a ...