Evolution faster in temperate zones than tropics

Stone-age women killed furry babies, research suggests

Surviving Ebola

Whether you will survive an Ebola infection or not depends on the immune response of your body, not on the level of infection

How tiger got its white coat

A mutated gene holds clue

Back to life

Mammoth task

Elephant management in India just got tougher

The loser talks

Evolution basics

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Jurassic age cleaners

125 million-year-old fossil suggests cockroaches ate dinosaur dung

Recall of the wild

A huge debate surrounds the use of synthetic biology for environmental conservation

The good coyotes

Protein from buffalo blood has answer to infertility

Days of the dino

A priest-scientist to artists, dinosaurs have had their popularizers  

Finding meaning in a career in science: Experts share their stories

Without this 360-degree view of climate science, we are likely to keep breeding narrow-minded climate communicators 

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Appetite for danger

Jobs involving hazardous chemicals actually select people with the appropriate genes

Ancestors of vertebrates did not have a brain

Nicobar megapode in serious trouble, faces extinction

Bird species found only in Nicobar Islands take a plunge

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Genes sweat it out, too

Outstanding grain

The aromatic enigma makes basmati a clear winner among grains. The lack of knowledge of what traditional basmati is and an inability to take …

Decoding predatory genes

First mapping of the Siberian tiger genome shows how tigers evolved to hunt and kill

Done to death

Over fishing has ruined the coasts

Pygmies stay short to live longer