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

This article introduces the field of bioinformatics and its importance as a cornerstone of biological research, as well as ...

In the world of phylogenetics, there's team sponge and team comb jelly. Which creature roots the animal tree of life—the simple sponge or the more complex comb jelly—has stirred fierce debate among ...

Darwin knew he'd solved the paradox of how traits change across lineages, despite the fact that changes acquired over a ...

A research team at the University of Cologne examined how optional support influences students' learning success and ...

Thanks to corals’ deep-sea cousins, even the most extreme environmental changes—global warming or sudden, severe variations ...

New research has developed the first molecular ‘clock’ for common dolphins. It could be a game-changer for conservation.

In the Amazon forest, human disturbances are now changing which trees grow, how they work, and how deep their evolutionary ...

A research team at the University of Cologne examined how optional support influences students' learning success and motivation in secondary biology ...

Researchers have newly described three extremely rare species of toad that leapfrog over the egg-to-tadpole stage and give birth to toadlets.

In the world of phylogenetics, there's team sponge and team comb jelly.Which creature roots the animal tree of life — the simple sponge or the more ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers has combined deep botanical knowledge with powerful genomic technology to decode and mine the DNA of non-flowering seed plants and uncover genes that evolved to ...