When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: YueStock Shutterstock Evolution is the way groups of life-forms change over time to ...

A new study co-authored by researchers at Indiana University sheds light on how the forces that shape mountain ranges also influence the evolution of species. In the study, "Direct effects of mountain ...

Researchers uncover evidence that the gut microbiome and brain connection can influence brain gene expression and neural ...

When COVID-19 lockdowns emptied city streets, urban environments changed almost overnight. New research suggests that Los ...

Songbirds on the UCLA campus changed beak shapes during the pandemic, according to a new study. Researchers suspect it might ...

A single thermal performance curve applies across life, from bacteria to animals. Species differ in optimal temperatures, but not in the fundamental shape of their response to heat. Researchers at Tri ...

Could detecting static electricity be a factor in explaining why treehopper insects have evolved such bizarre body shapes? That is the hypothesis put forward in a new research paper published in ...

Scientists have developed a theoretical model that uncovers the dual role of polyploidy -- organisms carrying extra genome copies -- in evolution. Their findings reveal that polyploidy can stabilize ...

Continuous evolution of Fermi arcs and the achieved electromagnetic pulling force. a, Schematic showing how Fermi arcs can be adjusted by varying the thickness of an air layer sandwiched between two ...

Time evolution of the bubble shape for shell thicknesses of 1 nm and 10 nm under the same ultrasound conditions. A thin shell allows large deformations and can lead to the formation of a jet toward ...