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A short period of heat stress changed genes in fruit flies, and these changes lasted for generations. Some offspring even ...

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Dr Peter Verheyen, Sola Society and Academy at Vienna University, discusses intriguing research and discoveries related to ...

I fell in love with democracy before I fully understood it. In high school civics classes in the 1990s, I learned about a ...

Lucy left audiences questioning what happens when the human brain reaches its full potential. Now, a possible sequel raises even bigger questions about evolution and consciousness. Scarlett ...

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New chromosome-level evidence suggests Medicago evolution followed a more complex, and surprising path, than previously ...

A common element in “Star Trek” and other science fiction is their depiction of humanoid alien species. If life exists ...

Researchers at almost 100 institutions supported the creation of the Max Planck Institute-funded EVApeCognition Dataset – ...