New research challenges the long-standing idea that most fixed genetic mutations are neutral. For many years, scientists studying evolution have believed that most genetic changes influencing how ...

Consciousness is fundamental; only thereafter do time, space and matter arise. This is the starting point for a new theoretical model of the nature of reality, presented by Maria Strømme, Professor of ...

A research group led by Dr. Ryushiro Kasahara has discovered a new plant tissue essential for seed formation, which will be ...

A new study challenges the idea that language stems from a single evolutionary root. Instead, it proposes that our ability to communicate evolved through the interaction of biology and culture, and ...

Doctor and presenter Chris van Tulleken introduces some handpicked Biology clips from the BBC archive for use in the classroom. A series of short films for secondary schools examining the human body ...

A recent special issue of Philosophical Transactions B takes on one of the biggest mysteries in science: how life first began ...

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