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The trio used the same principles of evolution -- genetic change and selection -- to develop proteins used in a range of fields.

Trio win Nobel Chemistry Prize for research harnessing evolution

Arnold, just the fifth woman to win the Nobel Chemistry Prize, won one half of the nine million Swedish kronor.

3 Oct 2018 5:04 PM IST

The Nonhuman Rights Project announced Monday it has filed a lawsuit in Connecticut Superior Court on behalf of elephants named Beulah, Karen and Minnie. (Photo: Pixabay)

Find out why elephants are going extinct

Unlike ancient species, scientists find no genetic evidence of interbreeding among two of the world's three remaining...

28 Feb 2018 12:26 PM IST

The conventional wisdom was that our large brains had evolved because of a series of step-like increases. (Photo: Pixabay)

How humans got bigger brains decoded

The conventional wisdom was that our large brains had evolved because of a series of step-like increases.

21 Feb 2018 5:29 PM IST

Planet Nine does exist, and may be 10 times the mass of the Earth and 20 times away from the Sun than Neptune, NASA scientists say

Humans did not come from Earth, claims scientist

According to experts, life spreads like an interstellar infection and clusters of planets in the galaxy have alien...

23 April 2018 12:39 PM IST

The researchers found that the animals eat the brains of infants, adolescents and juveniles first.

Meat-eating chimps that hunt baby monkeys could reveal new clues on...

Researchers believe habit, coming from species that humans probably share common ancestor with, likely speaks to human...

13 April 2018 12:59 PM IST

Representational Image. (Photo: Pixabay)

This is how jumping genes drive evolution

Here is what a new study has found.

30 July 2018 2:02 PM IST

Human remains and pottery items dating more than 1,500 years were found at an excavation site in the northern coastal town of Huanchaco, Peru, on March 21, 2018. (Photo: AFP)

Humans arrived in Asia earlier than thought: Study

The artefacts include a notch, scrapers, cobble, hammer stones and pointed pieces, according to the study published in...

12 July 2018 1:40 PM IST

The researchers speculate that the hard-wired monkey calls, and the meaning attached to them, are similar to noises that infant humans make. (Photo: AFP)

Monkeys offer clues on origin of language

Experiments on vervet monkeys offer clues on origin of language despite diverging evolutionary paths.

29 May 2019 12:33 PM IST

Melstrom initially believed an absence of mammals led them toward herbivory, but he found that some of the species lived alongside mammals and proto-mammals while others did not. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

There was a phase when crocodiles were herbivorous

Crocs were once vegetarians, but it was just a phase.

28 Jun 2019 9:21 AM IST

Modern birds like chickens often have scales on their legs or necks and showed these were reversals, what had once been feathered had reversed to scale. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

Evolution of feathers before birds

Studies reveal that feathers came before birds.

16 Jun 2019 12:04 PM IST

Aquilarhinus sported a simple bony crest, one shaped like a humped nose, researchers said. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

New species of duck-billed dinosaurs identified

Scientists have discovered new species of duck-billed dinosaurs identified.

16 July 2019 10:05 AM IST

Hominins a subset of great apes that includes Homo sapiens and Neanderthals are believed to have emerged in Africa more than six million years ago. (Photo: AFP)

210000 year old skull identifies as the earliest modern human remains

'Oldest remains' outside Africa reset human migration clock.

11 July 2019 10:17 AM IST