Survival of the fittest. Nature red in tooth and claw. The common view of natural selection is based solely on the individual: A trait allows an organism to out-compete its rivals and is thus passed ...

Every living organism has its own genetic "blueprint": the source code for how it grows, functions and reproduces. This blueprint is known as a genome. When scientists sequence a genome, they identify ...

Bayes' theorem is a statistical formula used to calculate conditional probability. Learn how it works, how to calculate it ...

An unusually warm and snow-scarce winter has hit British Columbia. Discover how a persistent atmospheric river pattern and a stubborn high-pressure ridge are leading to record-low snowfall in places ...

On January 12, the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) PSLV-C62 mission lifted off from Sriharikota carrying the EOS-N1 satellite along with 15 co-passenger satellites. Within minutes, ISRO ...

This winter is seeing record-breaking levels of viral infections. The combination of flu, COVID-19, and norovirus has left many looking for ways to give their immune system a boost. One way to help ...

PITTSBURGH — It’s hard to come away with too many questions about a team that won a playoff game in dominant fashion, but there is some interrogation to be done, even after the Houston Texans ...

A woman who owns a Salt Spring Island home that the province alleges was bought with money from a US$165-million, pump-and-dump stock fraud has agreed not to fight a demand to provide information on ...

Schistosoma mansoni worms, the cause of schistosomiasis, a microscopic worm that plagues more than 200 million across the globe, are seen through a microscope at the lab of University of Georgia ...

The most significant chapter has arrived in the ongoing saga between the Trump administration and Washington, D.C.’s public golf courses. On Wednesday afternoon, the Department of the Interior revoked ...