Studies confirm that the position in which you sleep plays a significant role in human health - especially for your stomach ...

This figure from the paper shows the evolution of root types from teosinte to modern corn over the last 10 000 years, simulated using the modeling program OpenSimRoot, which was developed by ...

The Eugenics Record Office thought pseudoscience could make more perfect humans. It led to unspeakable tragedy.

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

New research suggests that the evolution of the human brain may explain why autism is more common in humans than in other ...

Summary: A new study suggests that autism may be linked to the rapid evolution of brain cell types unique to humans.

Corn was domesticated from its ancestor teosinte in central Mexico beginning about 9,000 years ago by humans selectively breeding the wild plant, transforming its small, hard-shelled kernels into the ...

Perhaps such a transition will be increasingly adaptive. Faced with growing ecological and social crises, the current ...

ALAMEDA, Calif., Aug. 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- San Francisco Bay Area-based crop biotechnology firms genXtraits, Inc. (genXtraits) and Mendel Biotechnology, Inc. (Mendel) have announced that they ...