When COVID-19 arrived, researchers tried to build evolutionary family trees—known as phylogenetic trees—of the virus. These help scientists understand when new virus strains appear and how they are ...

This article introduces the field of bioinformatics and its importance as a cornerstone of biological research, as well as its history from the comparative analysis of the first amino acid sequences ...

For ten years running, computer scientist Alexandros Stamatakis from the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) has been identified as ...

Kissing is more than just "mouth-to-mouth" touching, and the study doesn't really shed much light on why humans kiss the way ...

Scientists have traced kissing back to early primates, suggesting it began long before humans evolved. Their analysis points ...

Scientists suggest kissing is much older than humans. Evidence points to ancient primates sharing affectionate mouth-to-mouth ...

HHMI Investigator Nicole King and Postdoctoral Researcher Jacob Steenwyk used large datasets and a combination of analyses to understand which organism roots the animal tree of life: the simple sponge ...

Early this year, bird flu ripped through 80 farms in Ohio and Indiana. Using genetic markers, wind simulations, satellite ...

Birds prefer to live in a mix of forests, fields and wetlands, but human activities such as logging, hunting and sand and ...

Darwin knew he'd solved the paradox of how traits change across lineages, despite the fact that changes acquired over a lifetime are lost each generation (a paradox culture doesn't face).