Drug discovery remains slow, expensive and unreliable, despite many technological advances in recent decades. The journey from a small-molecule screening hit to a candidate drug typically takes 4–5 ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

For the last few years, chain-of-thought prompting has become the central method for reasoning in large language models. By encouraging models to “think aloud,” researchers found that step-by-step ...

The extinct Tasmanian tiger, also known as the thylacine, looked eerily similar to modern canids, a group of predatory carnivores that includes wolves, foxes, and domesticated dogs. But thylacines ...

Evolution, Vol. 50, No. 1 (Feb., 1996), pp. 163-173 (11 pages) Phenotypic evolution in contemporary populations can generally be witnessed only when novel selective forces produce rapid evolution.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Biological classification aims at establishing ordering systems for organisms. Principles of classification, however, differ in their criteria ...

The microbiome comprises a multitude of bacteria, viruses and fungi that exist in and on a multicellular organism. The interactions of body cells and the microbiome form a structural and often ...

Researchers have determined that there are hundreds of biological differences between the sexes when it comes to gene expression in the cerebral cortex of humans and other primates. These findings ...

Evolution is incredibly diverse, but at the same time super limited. All species must honor basic physics and unassailable biological limits (we’ll never see, for example, an animal with wheels… or at ...

Social login, for example, has been widely adopted by both businesses and consumers. Allowing users to verify their identities and log in to websites and mobile applications using existing profiles ...