By Keith Hamm By design, the detonation of a nuclear weapon in a major city would be devastating. The explosion of intense ...

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 ...

GS-z13-1, using the James Webb Space Telescope. This galaxy provides evidence that the universe's transition from its 'dark ...

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 extra radiation could have been strong enough to cause double-strand breaks in the DNA of organisms, which can increase the rates of cancer, or mutations that might lead to new evolutionary ...

“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 ...

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 ...

This process, whereby species evolve rapidly to exploit empty ecospace, is known as adaptive radiation. In his memoir, The Voyage of the Beagle, Darwin noted, almost as if in awe, "One might ...

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Losos, J. B. Adaptive radiation, ecological opportunity, and evolutionary determinism. The American Naturalist 175, 623-639 (2010). Lynch, V. J. Live-birth in vipers (Viperidae) is a key ...