When our distant ancestors first traded nomadic life for farming, villages, and permanent homes, you might assume that the ...

This important study probes the long-standing failure to resolve evolutionary relationships between the classical "spiralian" taxa - i.e., annelids, molluscs, brachiopods, platyhelminths and ...

Not in a way humans can hear, but in a newly documented study, stressed plants were found to release bursts of ultrasonic ...

Are you stuck in a training rut? Learn the "explore-exploit" dilemma that helps elite athletes decide when to switch coaches, ...

Scientists from the GAIA Initiative have now published a machine learning approach in the journal “Ecological Informatics” that improves how roaring behaviour can be studied. The algorithm can ...

Phylogenetics is the attempt to reconstruct the evolutionary relationships between species. Historically, this was done using quantitative morphological data, but modern methods rely more heavily on ...