"Consciousness," although challenging to define, can be thought of as a first-person awareness of one's surroundings and oneself. You sense the world through your eyes, nose, ears and hands, and track ...

Gabriel D. Victora's team has turned germinal centers into a living laboratory for one of biology's oldest questions: how ...

Life was pretty nice during the Ediacaran, so the need for sex was rather limited,” Emily Mitchell, a paleozoologist at the ...

Researchers in the field of synthetic biology are still a long way from being able to assemble living cells from scratch in the laboratory. But according to biochemist David Deamer of the University ...

For decades, many scientists have relied on the "hard steps" model to suggest that intelligent life is rare — the improbable result of a series of unlikely evolutionary leaps. But new research by ...

Scientists suggest Earth's earliest animals reproduced asexually, slowing evolution and delaying the biodiversity boom that ...

The problem of how life evolved on Earth has intrigued the minds of many great scientists for centuries. Now, according to an exciting study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

While ontogenetic habitat shifts are a widely appreciated phenomenon across fishes, the macroevolutionary implications of habitat shifts and subsequent ecological opportunity have mainly focused on ...

Beneficial mutations happen quite frequently, but the world changes too fast for them to stick.

The number of known proteins is infinitely small in comparison to the universe of possible proteins, which could in theory be realized. Yet these known proteins are the only major training ground for ...

I watch Rufus, a friend’s dog, chew enthusiastically on a rubber bone. I know the dog is alive, and his toy is not. I know that intuitively. But can I prove it scientifically? Can science parse the ...

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