A Long-Standing Theory of Childbirth Is a Myth

But new evidence has started to challenge the notion that human childbirth is uniquely dangerous. A new paper published today ...

Tiny DNA 'hitchhikers' may be reshaping life in thawing Arctic soils

Amid the peatlands of northern Sweden, billions of microbes are quietly rewriting their genetic playbooks—and doing so far more often than scientists realized.

Why Do Humans Have A Philtrum? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains The Groove Above Your Lip

Why humans have a philtrum, the groove above your lip, explained by an evolutionary biologist — from embryonic face-building to vestigial anatomy.
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Primate evolution kept aging rates stable for 25 million years despite lifespan gaps

Biologists group animals with similar traits into broad categories called orders. Despite their similarities, animal species in the same order can have very different average lifespans. One of the ...

Bionano Genomics: Bionano Announces Hiring of Chief Scientific Officer

Bionano Genomics, Inc. (NASDAQ: BNGO), a leader in genome analysis solutions, today announced the appointment of Alex Hastie, Ph.D., as its Chief Scientific ...

Bionano Announces Hiring of Chief Scientific Officer

Bionano Genomics, Inc. (NASDAQ: BNGO), a leader in genome analysis solutions, today announced the appointment of Alex Hastie, Ph.D., as its Chief Scientific Officer (CSO), effective July 20, 2026. In ...