Screen-centric lifestyles may be influencing human evolution through impacts on cognition, sleep, reproduction, and the microbiome, reshaping natural selection.

A column about fixed-odds wagering on horse racing and the possibilities in sports betting-rife North America.

What happens when you let evolution play out inside a video game? From digital creatures adapting in real-time to entire ...

Technology can be harnessed to design novel and enhanced molecules that address challenges in biotechnology or medicine.

Tensions between religion and science erupted in a hot and humid courtroom in Dayton, Tenn., 100 years ago this month.

Cancer does not develop overnight. It can take decades for cancer‐promoting changes in the genome to eventually lead to the ...

This week marks the 100th anniversary of the Scopes "Monkey Trial" — where a teacher was charged with the crime of teaching Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. At ...

Researchers from the University of Sydney have developed a system that mimics natural selection inside living mammalian cells ...

One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in ...

Natural selection isn’t the only factor driving evolution, says Laurence D Hurst. And it’s happening faster than ever before ...

The work provides the first experimental evidence showing how natural selection can shape genetic systems to enhance future capacity for evolution, challenging traditional perspectives on ...

A new study examining stick and leaf insect species has found evidence of convergent evolution, with all of the insects evolving similar characteristics despite diverging long ago. Convergent ...