evolution

“Italian wall lizards introduced to a tiny island off the coast of Croatia are evolving in ways that would normally take millions of years to play out, new research shows. In just a few decades the 5-inch-long (13-centimeter-long) lizards have more...

USA Today announced that the popular daily newspaper would be eliminating the use of text from all future issues. Editor-In-Chief Steve Herman stated, "We believe our readers will appreciate the even easier-to-look-at format, a formula which has made us so more...

Electric Sheep is a free, open source screen saver run by thousands of people all over the world. It can be installed on any ordinary PC or Mac. When these computers "sleep", the screen saver comes on and the computers more...

Without weapons, which only arrived around 50,000 years ago, humans could work by something called “persistence hunting”, still apparently used in some cultures today. Humans use much less energy to increase speed than most animals, so it is fairly easy more...

In the corner of a laboratory at Michigan State University, one of the longest-running experiments in evolution is quietly unfolding. A dozen flasks of sugary broth swirl on a gently rocking table. Each is home to hundreds of millions of more...