Do living beings learn and pass on to future generations some behaviors or predispositions more easily than others––and if so, how? So-called prepared learning is a question psychologists and other ...
A unicellular organism that can rebuild itself into a different organism, may also be a crawling, swimming archive of evolutionary knowledge. When it’s not eating your brain. There’s a strange irony ...
The very first giant virus was discovered in a water-cooling tower in 2003. As the name suggests, giant viruses are unusually large and their genomes unusually complex, all of which went against the ...