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Epigenetic aging clocks use DNA methylation patterns to measure biological age and predict health risks across human tissues.

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, finds that changes in animal development induced by climate shock persist generations after the initial event. The escalating effects of climate change ...

Today (May 22) is United Nations International Day for Biological Diversity, drawing attention to a critical resource for ...

A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution. In 1950 the Italian physicist Enrico ...

The biodiversity of the native plants and animals that live in the Hawaiian islands is breath-taking. On the northern and eastern sides of the islands, where the trade winds drop their moisture on ...

Every human voice is acoustically unique. The anatomy and evolutionary history behind that fact turns out to be one of ...