Carcinization is the repeated evolution of a crab-like body plan in different crustacean lineages. New genomic work is adding molecular and time-calibrated context to a story long told through anatomy ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

Like the other Nature titles, Nature Ecology & Evolution has no external editorial board. Instead, all editorial decisions are made by a dedicated team of professional editors, with relevant research ...

Lessons from the life sciences by Noubar Afeyan and Gary P. Pisano On November 30, 2020, Moderna Therapeutics announced that Phase III clinical trials for its messenger RNA vaccine demonstrated 95% ...

Long before laptops, smartphones, and personal computers became part of everyday life, computers were large, expensive machines built from numerous separate components. In 1969, a small team at Intel ...

A supercomputer in Shenzhen was declared the world’s fastest. It uses only standard microprocessors and not the special-purpose chips called graphics processing units. By Don Clark Reporting from San ...

We synthesized data from 75 biodiversity experiments across grasslands and forests worldwide to test how climate extremes and environmental context shape the effects of plant diversity on productivity ...