Tag: evolution

Naaman and his team discovered that chiral molecules filter electrons based on the direction of their spin. Electrons with one ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.On warm summer nights, green lacewings flutter around bright lanterns in ...

At first glance, the grit crust could seem like a routine example of what researchers call a biological soil crust, ...

According to assembly theory, before Darwinian evolution can proceed, something has to select for multiple copies of high-AI objects from ...

A dense rainforest or other verdant terrestrial vegetation may be what first comes to mind at the mention of photosynthesis. ...

The new paper is the result of herculean computational analyses, involving researchers in Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom, to ...

The finding that Lokis have actin tentacles adds plausibility to a eukaryogenesis scenario called the inside-out model, Spang and Schleper ...

If they found a mutation in around 50 percent of an offspring’s DNA, they concluded that it was likely a ...