Ancient deep-sea organisms suggest movement, sexual reproduction, and complex animal life began earlier than previously thought.

A Lightweight and User-Friendly EoH Framework for LLM-driven Automated Algorithm/Heuristic Design Heuristics are indispensable for tackling complex search and optimization problems. However, manual ...

While laughing seems uniquely human, it is not. Researchers now have compared laughter in humans to laughter in the various ...

A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from China reveal that bryozoans were already thriving during the Cambrian explosion.

Evolution is always happening — so why can't we see it? A biologist explains the timescale problem, election pressure, and ...

Effective leadership of the development, deployment and monitoring of AI requires addressing risks to people and the environment. It also calls for ensuring equity – fair access to AI’s benefits and ...

My data analysis of college tuition trends from 1840 to 2020 shows that college tuition has not significantly risen since 1990, at least compared to tuition changes over the previous decades. In fact, ...

As the national conversation shifts to political finger-pointing, an important environmental question deserves careful ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

Citizen science data from the popular platform iNaturalist has helped uncover the evolution of parental guarding behavior in harvestmen spiders, as shown in research published in the Zoological ...