Cells in our bodies squeeze through dense tissue channels, thread past neighboring cells and navigate every nook and cranny within the extracellular matrix—the mesh-like network that surrounds and ...

Atlas is continuing to evolve. In a fairly long video with infrequent explanations, Boston Dynamics demonstrates how Atlas now copes with changing environments. While it's still the usual sorting of ...

If you eat at outdoor restaurants, you may have noticed opportunistic birds waiting for a chance to steal your chips. Turns out, that behavior might be a key to helping endangered species survive in ...

A major evolutionary theory says most genetic changes don’t really matter, but new evidence suggests that’s not true. Researchers found that helpful mutations happen surprisingly often. The twist is ...

For decades, ever since biologists recognized the potential environmental harms from climate change, they have worried that plants will not be able to evolve fast enough to adapt to a rapidly warming ...

Patients infected with black fungus are treated at the mucormycosis ward of a government hospital in Ahmedabad, India. Credit: Ajit Solanki / Alamy Stock Photo Fungi are learning to adapt to climate ...