Trees get most of the love, but diatoms, a group of photosynthetic microalgae, produce 20% of Earth's oxygen and are the ...

Australian researchers are turning to nature for the next computing revolution, harnessing living cells and biological ...

The internal structures of Maba 1 show a combination of morphological features found in various species,” scientists stated ...

At first glance, feathers may seem like simple parts of a bird’s body. But if you look closer—under a microscope or through a ...

In Part II of The Biology of Spore, we explore the evolution from tribal to space-faring life, analyzing the speculative biology behind intelligence, tool use, and interplanetary adaptation. This ...

Music is a universal language across time, peoples, and geographies, and also fundamental to our human experience, a result ...

Following vocal criticism of an initial revision to Iowa’s science education standards that stripped away phrases like “climate change” and “biological evolution” from what K-12 students ...

The new findings highlight how physical forces influence biological evolution. “We always think about genes and chemicals, but there’s also a strong underpinning of physics in the development ...

If they’re right, complex and intelligent life should be widespread. In this new view, biological evolution appears not as a unique process that gave rise to a qualitatively distinct form of matter — ...

A version of proposed updates to Iowa’s science education standards — omitting the phrases “climate change” and “biological evolution” — is not the version a 37-member “Iowa ...

Third grade teacher Tracey Broughton teaches students at Perry Creek Elementary School in Sioux City. Iowa’s current draft of its K-12 science standards, which include changing the word ...