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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...