Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Even fruit flies have personal preferences. Antagain/E+ via Getty Images As a Ph.D. student, I wanted to understand the evolution ...

Sperm are the most diverse and rapidly evolving cell type. Why sperm have undergone such dramatic evolution is a mystery that has stumped biologists for more than a century. To solve this evolutionary ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about the oldest known tadpole, new proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem, and the evolutionary roots of alcohol consumption. All ...

(THE CONVERSATION) As a Ph.D. student, I wanted to understand the evolution of individual differences in fruit fly behavior – the building blocks of personality. My experiments involved measuring how ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Shraddha Lall, Harvard University (THE CONVERSATION) As a Ph.D. student, I wanted to ...