This article introduces the field of bioinformatics and its importance as a cornerstone of biological research, as well as ...

For ten years running, computer scientist Alexandros Stamatakis from the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) has been identified as one of the most cited researchers worldwide, ...

HHMI Investigator Nicole King and Postdoctoral Researcher Jacob Steenwyk used large datasets and a combination of analyses to understand which organism roots the animal tree of life: the simple sponge ...

The area known as the Santana Group in the Araripe Basin in northeastern Brazil has long been an important fossil site, ...

A more-than-a-century-old European beech tree located in a Vancouver Island park grew from seeds obtained in Flanders Fields, ...

Darwin knew he'd solved the paradox of how traits change across lineages, despite the fact that changes acquired over a ...

In the Amazon forest, human disturbances are now changing which trees grow, how they work, and how deep their evolutionary ...

In the world of phylogenetics, there's team sponge and team comb jelly.Which creature roots the animal tree of life — the simple sponge or the more ...

A new Brazilian pterosaur from the Cretaceous period was discovered, Galgadraco zephyrius, revealing surprising links with Romania.

Genealogists use open-source data to build the family tree to find the most recent common ancestors and identify a suspect.

Cavefish exhibit resilience to chronic sleep loss and tolerate elevated DNA damage and reduced DNA repair responses without compromising healthspan or longevity.