A new review argues that conserving medicinal plants under climate change requires protecting adaptive genomic variation, not ...

New study traces van Gogh’s famed ‘Starry Night’ to an actual night sky from 1889 The Orionid meteor shower is coming. Here’s how and when to watch Can larger batteries safely power residential ...

For decades, ever since biologists recognized the potential environmental harms from climate change, they have worried that plants will not be able to evolve fast enough to adapt to a rapidly warming ...

Florida’s proposed new academic standards for science downplay evolution, ignore “climate change” and represent a step backwards for public education, according to several experts who’ve reviewed them ...

Ancient climate swings may have helped shape the birds you hear outside your window today. A new University of Michigan study suggests that passerines, the vast group that includes songbirds and ...

The ancestors of our furry cats and dogs once looked similar to today's modern mongoose, a mammal with a long body and small, round ears. In fact, all members of the order Carnivora, which includes a ...

Black-browed albatrosses have soared the southern oceans for millions of years, but a new study reveals that the forces reshaping their world are moving faster than nature can answer. The question is ...

A version of proposed updates to Iowa’s science education standards — omitting the phrases “climate change” and “biological evolution” — is not the version a 37-member “Iowa Department of Education ...

Scientists from UC San Diego and Australia have engineered bacteria that detect the presence of tumor DNA in live organisms. (File image courtesy UCSD) Evolution works over millennia. Climate change ...