Plants use sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into energy-rich sugars and oxygen in various ways (photosynthesis).

The new study challenges the long-held view of evolution as a purely random or chaotic process, suggesting instead that ...

Directed evolution is a laboratory method that speeds up protein mutations to help create novel cancer and neurodegenerative disorder therapies. In a new study, scientists detail a method called ...

What happens when natural selection, the most powerful process driving change in the living world, shapes artificial ...

During California’s worst dry spell in the past 1,200 years, some populations of wildflowers defied the odds to survive the ordeal. Researchers say they now believe these flowers relied on a type of ...

Why does natural selection appear to happen slowly on long timescales and quickly on short ones? A multigenerational study of four lizard species addresses biology’s “paradox of stasis.” James Stroud ...

The discovery of an ancient snake fossil has changed the way that scientists view the evolution of snakes. About one hundred ...