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Rutgers physicist shows that the ability to recognize others allows cooperation to emerge naturally without special conditions or family ties.

This synthetic biology system enables rapid development of proteins with improved functions, offering breakthroughs in creating treatments for diseases like cancer and neurodegeneration by speeding up lab-based evolution.

Scientists create a system to evolve molecules in mammal cells, advancing medicine.

A new study in Nature reveals complex eukaryotic cells began forming 2.9 billion years ago, a billion years earlier than thought, upending theories on the origin of plants and animals.

This new method brings lab-based protein evolution closer to natural biological processes by incorporating timing and switching behaviors.

A study reveals that primates with longer thumbs tend to have larger brains, showing how hand skills and brain growth evolved side by side over millions of years.

In a world where ideas spread like viruses, our beliefs can turn toxic, driving humanity into continual conflicts. Is this inherent or rather viral: cancerous memes embedded in our cultures?

Experts unite insights from various fields to show how biology and culture together shaped human communication abilities over time.

Researchers argue that shared human practices are reshaping our species more quickly than biology, potentially transforming what it means to be human.

We're in a "polycrisis," warn scientists