It usually takes millions of years for new species to evolve, but not for fish in one African lake.

Scientists warn that assisted evolution may be too slow to save coral reefs as ocean heat waves intensify and climate change ...

Scientists call for a major acceleration in coral assisted evolution research to help reefs cope with rapidly warming oceans.

Until now, there was a conflict in the field of paleontology. Genetic analysis of how fast traits mutated and evolved ...

Hidden within fish DNA are powerful genetic twists that may explain one of nature’s biggest mysteries: how new species form so quickly. In Lake Malawi, hundreds of cichlid fish species evolved at ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Directed evolution is a laboratory method that speeds up protein mutations to help create novel cancer and neurodegenerative disorder therapies. In a ...

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The history of science and technology is marked by major breakthroughs—the theory of evolution, the splitting of the atom, ...

Scientists have built a lab model that visually tracks how microscopic contact points between fault surfaces evolve during earthquake cycles, revealing the hidden mechanics behind both the slow ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

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