Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves
Imagine a future in which human beings have become immune to all viruses, in which bacteria can custom-produce everyday items, like a drinking cup, or generate enough electricity to end oil...
View ArticleEarly evolution ‘facts’ found to be incorrect
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A research team led by biogeochemists at the University of California, Riverside has tested a popular hypothesis in paleo-ocean chemistry, and proved it false. The fossil record...
View ArticleFluctuating environment may have driven human evolution: 2,000,000 years ago
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A series of rapid environmental changes in East Africa roughly 2 million years ago may be responsible for driving human evolution, according to researchers at Penn State and...
View ArticleJust in case you’ve been charged with re-creating the universe
Magnetic fields created before the first stars Bochum physicist calculates field strengths in the early universe Magnets have practically become everyday objects. Earlier on, however, the universe...
View ArticleFacial shape and aggression have no scientific link
There is not significant evidence to support the association between facial shape and aggression in men, according to a study published by the journal PLOS ONE. The professor Mireia Esparza, from the...
View ArticleLong-held theories of human evolution questioned because of new finding
What came first: the bipedal human ancestor or the grassland encroaching on the forest? A new analysis of the past 12 million years’ of vegetation change in the cradle of humanity is challenging...
View ArticleWith NO fast food, and LOTS of exercise, preindustrial hunter gatherers had...
The leading cause of death in the developed world also afflicted our early ancestors, indicating there’s more to it than modern lifestyles The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey Like nearly 4.6...
View ArticleLand animals kept fish-like jaws for millions of years
Research has confirmed how early land vertebrates, which evolved from fish, developed weight-bearing limbs and other adaptations long before their feeding systems adjusted to a vegetation-based diet....
View ArticleNew book rewrites how evolution was discovered
A major new book by historian Dr John van Wyhe from the National University of Singapore has radically rewritten the story of how evolution was discovered by Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace. Titled...
View Article2 mutations triggered an evolutionary leap 500 million years ago
Evolution, it seems, sometimes jumps instead of crawls. A research team led by a University of Chicago scientist has discovered two key mutations that sparked a hormonal revolution 500 million years...
View ArticleEvolution too slow to keep up with climate change, study says
Many vertebrate species would have to evolve about 10,000 times faster than they have in the past to adapt to the rapid climate change expected in the next 100 years, a study led by a University of...
View Article‘Evolution will punish you if you’re selfish and mean': NSF sponsored study
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Two Michigan State University evolutionary biologists offer new evidence that evolution doesn’t favor the selfish, disproving a theory popularized in 2012. “We found evolution...
View ArticleGalaxies had ‘mature’ shapes 11.5 billion years ago
Newswise — AMHERST, Mass. – Studying the evolution and anatomy of galaxies using the Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers led by doctoral candidate BoMee Lee and her advisor...
View ArticleEvolution: Not the end of the world: why Earth’s greatest mass extinction was...
The ancient closest relatives of mammals – the cynodont therapsids – not only survived the greatest mass extinction of all time, 252 million years ago, but thrived in the aftermath, according to new...
View ArticleEvolution and medicine, an accessible introduction
Evolution and Medicine provides an accessible introduction to the new field of evolutionary medicine. Evolutionary concepts help explain why we remain vulnerable to disease, how pathogens and cancer...
View ArticleOrigins of life assumptions questioned
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Before there was life on Earth, there were molecules. A primordial soup. At some point a few specialized molecules began replicating. This self-replication, scientists agree,...
View ArticleLife on Earth may have come from out of this world: international team of...
A group of international scientists including a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researcher have confirmed that life really could have come from out of this world. The team shock compressed an...
View ArticleNew form of light-saber-like matter discovered by Harvard, MIT group
Working with colleagues at the Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms, a group led by Harvard Professor of Physics Mikhail Lukin and MIT Professor of Physics Vladan Vuletic have managed to coax...
View ArticleClay may have been birthplace of life on earth
Newswise — ITHACA, N.Y. – Clay, a seemingly infertile blend of minerals, might have been the birthplace of life on Earth. Or at least of the complex biochemicals that make life possible, Cornell...
View ArticleA new species of horse, 4.4 million years old
CLEVELAND—Two teams of researchers, including a scientist from Case Western Reserve University, have announced the discovery of a new species of fossil horse from 4.4 million-year-old fossil-rich...
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