An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a Sun-like star, ...

Radiation is thought to be one of the contributing drivers of evolution here on Earth, a chaotic influence that pushes cells to mutate, for good or for ill (or for neutral). Evolution would happen ...

"It's insane that something is from space can have that kind of an impact on our electronics. So we're thinking, okay, how does that have a potential impact on other aspects of our life?" The ...

“We saw from other papers that radiation can damage DNA. That could be an accelerant for evolutionary changes or mutations in cells.” The key to understanding this 2.5-million-year-old ...

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But the decades of exposure to radiation left over from the accident had led to a dramatic and rapid evolutionary change in the frogs – a change entirely driven by human actions. As Orizaolo ...

That radiation was potentially strong enough to ... With its ancient age and rich biodiversity, Lake Tanganyika is an evolutionary biologist's dream. That 2003 study indicates that about 2.5 ...