A study in fruit flies suggests an internal genomic arms race may be driving rapid evolution in proteins that still perform an essential, unchanging job: protecting chromosome ends.

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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an increasingly dangerous problem affecting global health. In 2019 alone, ...

Wild populations must continuously adapt to environmental changes or risk extinction. For more than fifty years, scientists have described instances of 'rapid evolution' in specific populations as ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Human impacts on global ecosystems can be severe, widespread and irreversible. But life on Earth has evolved to meet environmental challenges ...

The University of Hong Kong. "Rapid evolution fuels transcriptional plasticity in fish species to cope with ocean acidification." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 3 March 2022. <www.sciencedaily.com / ...

For decades, scientists have studied animals living in or near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to see how increased levels of radiation affect their health, growth, and evolution. A study analyzed ...