New UCR research shows that the search for life beyond Earth could benefit from a statistical approach that prioritizes patterns rather than searching for individual chemical or molecular traces.

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Susana Wadgymar, a biology professor and evolutionary ecologist at Davidson College, has been honored by the Ecological ...

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Humans are fundamentally "musical animals"—and our capacity for music is rooted in biology, not just culture. This is the conclusion of new work by University of Amsterdam professor of Music Cognition ...

When scientist J. Craig Venter and his team announced in 2010 that they had created the first cell controlled by a fully synthetic genome, it marked a turning point in how scientists think about life.

Tennessee Tech has been given the go-ahead to launch a new Ph.D. program in Integrative Biology this fall. The Tennessee ...