A major evolutionary theory says most genetic changes don’t really matter, but new evidence suggests that’s not true. Researchers found that helpful mutations happen surprisingly often. The twist is ...

WIRED spoke with DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli about the recent past—and promising future—of the Nobel Prize-winning research ...

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The most comprehensive dataset of termite genomes to date was created by an international team of scientists, led by ...

Some ants thrive by choosing numbers over strength. Instead of heavily protecting each worker, they invest fewer resources in ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

Over 500 million years ago, during the Cambrian period, all major animal phyla appeared rapidly in what is known as the ...

Repeated environmental changes can lead evolution in unexpected directions, and research from Vermont shows that studying a single population does not capture the full story of an entire species. All ...

Four billion years ago, Earth was violent, hot, and unstable. Yet new research suggests that by then, life had already ...

Some feathered dinosaurs may have lost the ability to fly, revealing that the evolution of flight was far more complex than ...

The researchers think the pattern they observed in ants reflects a more universal trend in the evolution of societal ...

Meta's work made headlines and raised a possibility once considered pure fantasy: that AI could soon outperform the world's best mathematicians by cracking math's marquee "unsolvable" problems en ...