How Mutant Viral Swarms Spread Disease
Viruses exist as “mutant clouds” of closely related individuals, an insight that is helping researchers predict where disease is likely to spread
Viruses exist as “mutant clouds” of closely related individuals, an insight that is helping researchers predict where disease is likely to spread
Emerging data suggests the seemingly impossible—that mysterious new genes arise from “junk” DNA
A new technique for finding and characterizing microbes has boosted the number of known bacteria by almost 50 percent, revealing a hidden world all around us.
The biologist Deborah Gordon has uncovered how ant colonies search efficiently without central organization, an insight that might improve computer networks
Researchers have begun to catalogue how soil microbes are changing the world
Modern birds appeared to emerge in a snap of evolutionary time. But new research illuminates the long series of evolutionary changes that made the transformation possible
Animals raised under the same conditions are creating a biological map of what makes individuals unique
Researchers are resurrecting ancient proteins to illuminate Earth’s biological dark ages
In his latest book Nobel Prize winner Steven Weinberg explores how science made the modern world, and where it might take us from here
Is dark energy a cosmic chameleon that can fade into its surroundings? A recent test brings the mysterious antigravitational force down-to-earth
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