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We’ve found the first five Busy Beaver numbers, but the sixth may be bigger than the number of atoms in the universe.

The gene therapy regimen seems to be working wonders, including restoring nearly all hearing to a seven-year-old patient ...

The world is currently experiencing its sixth mass extinction, with potentially thousands of species lost every year.

Four decades after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, something weird—but wonderful—is happening inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone: the dogs that roam the radioactive area are rapidly evolving. And ...

Normally, younger rocks are deposited above older ones, forming predictable geologic layers. In the North Sea, this process ...

PROTEUS, a system designed to harness “directed evolution,” can speed the process up by years, or even decades.

Committee gives first hint that policymakers might preserve, rather than slash, funding for US National Science Foundation ...

Infomercial channels are riddled with the next-best hair-loss solution, but those toupees, ointments, and hair plugs might ...

Scientists debate whether true reverse evolution is possible, but this species of tomatoes on the western Galápagos Islands ...

A new study suggests that the island of Rapa Nui, otherwise known as Easter Island, didn’t develop in the extreme manner of ...