Is an organism a sum of its parts, or should they be considered as a whole? New research on ferns shows how the way scientists understand evolution affects how they study life.

Researchers found that when a molecule displaces trapped water, the energy that the water leaves behind allows the molecule ...

For generations, flapper skate was mislabelled as common skate. It was only in 2010 that the common skate was shown, ...

In most narratives, the story of evolution is the story of organisms emerging from the ocean and eventually populating the ...

Cornell researchers have discovered a previously unknown way plants regulate water that is so fundamental it may change plant ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have used a "zap-and-freeze" technology to watch hard-to-see brain cell ...