Researchers uncovered millions of ancient plant DNA switches—some older than flowering plants themselves—revealing a hidden evolutionary blueprint stretching back 400 million years. Most people have ...

Wild scarlet monkeyflowers in California survived a historic drought by relying on a rapid evolution, marking the first time the process has been observed in the wild.

The story of a wildflower that adapted to a severe drought in California raises hopes that evolution will come to the rescue of species hit by climate change, but there are limits ...

Scientists discovered 2.3 million conserved non-coding sequences—some hundreds of millions of years old—using Conservatory, a new comparative plant genomics platform.

A potted scarlet monkeyflower would die within a few days without water. But multiple natural populations of the species ...

A study has traced thousands of conserved regulatory elements back 300 million years, revealing deep principles of plant genome evolution—a discovery that could pave the way for more precise ...

The Amazon molly reproduces without sex. A genomic copy-and-paste trick called gene conversion may explain how it avoids evolutionary meltdown.

Research is shaking up how we think about evolution, suggesting there's a level of predictability influenced by genes and genetic history.

As fans leave The Diamond, Ray Edwards gets busy. He picks up discarded Richmond Flying Squirrels mini-helmets that contained ice cream at one point.

In this week's Screen Gab, Judy Reyes and John C. McGinley discuss returning to "Scrubs" after more than a decade, plus streaming suggestions for your weekend.

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