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More than 150 years after Darwin’s finches helped reshape biology, Galápagos plants are exposing another evolutionary ...

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Think of a small fossil as the equivalent of a homemade video of prehistoric life. Fossils formed when sea organisms began ...

Disease of the soul or a great spur to revolution? This intriguing history explains boredom’s many forms – and why we need ...

Explore the pivotal evolutionary breakthroughs that shaped every living thing Evolution, a new five-part series tells the extraordinary story of how life on Earth has changed over more than four ...

Evolution, a new five-part series tells the extraordinary story of how life on Earth has changed over more than four billion years. Using cutting‑edge science and immersive visual effects, Chris ...

This video demonstrates how AI can be used to create timeline evolution diagrams that visualize the growth and transformation of a city over time. It showcases changes in architecture, urban ...

This is a month to look out for some powerful new books, with authors taking on challenges of all sorts and imagining whole new worlds. There are fresh ways to think about a cancer diagnosis, a book ...

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Even Charles Darwin was puzzled by the evolution of the vertebrate eye. New research suggests that it traces back to a cyclopean invertebrate with a single eye atop the head. By Carl Zimmer Look at ...