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Scientists discovered a 445-million-year-old horseshoe crab fossil showing that these animals have maintained the same reproductive system…

Scientists studied meandering rivers across the globe to establish how they responded to the evolution of land plants.

Researchers used simple molecules to create cell-like bubbles that grow and divide on their own, without the need for DNA or enzymes.

Researchers found a new way molecules self-replicate with fewer errors, by selecting similar ingredients. This “selective binding”…

Paleontologists discovered a new set of fossils from the ancient ancestors of animals in rocks from China.

Researchers found that when complex plants evolved, they increased ocean oxygen and massively restructured the marine ecosystem.

Scientists compared parts of the brain that correlate to speech in humans and primates to understand how speech evolved in humans.

Scientists tracked how fig trees interbreed and swap DNA across different climatic zones to determine where new species might arise.

How hard is it for evolution to produce intelligent life like humans? We don't really know, but some computational modelers tried to answer…

Scientists used to think cysteine was required to manufacture itself. Turns out, it isn't. In fact, cysteine slows down the manufacture of…