"Men's gains in height and weight are more than double those of women's, increasing sexual size dimorphism," the researchers ...

Experimental evolution is the use of laboratory or controlled field manipulations to investigate evolutionary processes. It usually makes use of organisms with rapid generation times and small ...

Residents should tell the Iowa Department of Education to stop its effort to inject private beliefs into science standards, writes .

Mackie and colleagues present a valuable comparison of lateralized gustation in two well-studied nematodes. The evidence they present that ASEL/R lateralization exists and is achieved by different ...

Neurobiological emergentism” explains how sentience—the subjective feeling aspects of consciousness—developed in ancient animals that evolved the first complex neural systems.

All humans cry. Some of our tears are meant to keep our eyes moist and healthy. Others clean out the eye from dust, pollens ...

With "Mind Evolution" LLMs can use search and genetic algorithms to generate and combine different solutions and find the optimal one.

Research suggests that an ancient shoreline helped to sculpt the drop between Mars' southern and northern hemispheres.

Efficient payment systems are at the heart of seamless public transport and urban service operations. With growing ...

One that should be easiest to solve involves modeling the behavior of some simple catalysts. The electrons of these catalysts ...

As the world grapples with the challenges of climate change and food insecurity, the need for sustainable food production has taken on a new urgency.

Enzymes are crucial to life. They are nature's little catalysts. In the gut, they help us digest food. They can enhance ...