Cancer doesn’t evolve by pure chaos. Scientists have developed a powerful new method that reveals the hidden rules guiding how cancer cells gain and lose whole chromosomes—massive genetic shifts that ...

Artificial intelligence allows tracing the evolution of genetic control elements in the developing mammalian cerebellum. An international research team led by biologists from Heidelberg University as ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently published a religion and science addition to its Topics and Questions series addressing four subjects: the general compatibility of science and ...

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Analysis of ancient proteins may fill in the gaps of human evolution left by the decomposition of DNA. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

A fish thought to be evolution’s time capsule just surprised scientists. A detailed dissection of the coelacanth — a 400-million-year-old species often called a “living fossil” — revealed that key ...

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Less than 70 years after Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species,” the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, became the center of the American debate about human evolution, the interpretation of ...

WEEK. ALL RIGHT, JASON, THANKS SO MUCH. WELL, SOME IOWANS ARE RAISING CONCERNS ABOUT NEW PROPOSED STATE SCIENCE STANDARDS. THE IOWA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION’S PROPOSAL WOULD REMOVE THE PHRASE CLIMATE ...

One hundred years ago a young teacher, John T. Scopes, went on trial in Dayton, Tenn., for violating a recently enacted state law that forbade the state’s educators “to teach any theory that denies ...