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

By showing that even resource-poor environments can foster significant evolutionary radiation, the research challenges conventional wisdom and opens new avenues for studying evolution in extreme ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Ionizing Radiation and Evolution ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 201 No. 3 (September 1959), p. 138 doi:10.1038 ...

“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 ...

"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 ...

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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 ...