A communication blackout temporarily silenced NASA's MAVEN orbiter, a crucial source of data on Mars' atmosphere. Engineers are working to recover the ...

David Toews works for Pennsylvania State University. He receives funding from The National Science Foundation. People typically think about evolution as a linear process where, within a species, the ...

Eight people, including multiple high school track and field runners, were hurt as a car hit pedestrians in Anaheim Wednesday afternoon. The crash occurred at about 3:30 p.m. at Harbor Boulevard and ...

Humans were isolated in southern Africa for about 100,000 years, which caused them to "fall outside the range of genetic variation" seen in modern-day people, a new genetic study reveals. The finding ...

This repository implements a genetic algorithm (GA) in Python3 programming language, using only Numpy and Joblib as additional libraries. It provides a basic StandardGA model as well as a more ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Introduced for the 1968 model year as Plymouth's most affordable muscle car, the Road Runner cost the company $50,000. Plymouth paid this sum to Warner Bros. to use the Road Runner name and likeness ...

An international team led by the Clínic-IDIBAPS-UB along with the Institute of Cancer Research, London, has developed a new method based on DNA methylation to decipher the origin and evolution of ...

Scientists have uncovered new evidence suggesting that autism may have it roots in how the human brain has evolved. "Our results suggest that some of the same genetic changes that make the human brain ...

This 1969 Road Runner is a project likely to tickle the fancy of many restoration guys, especially because it still has the original engine under the hood, but bringing it back to the road won't be ...

Blade Runner’s third live-action entry will be a streaming miniseries on Amazon Prime Video, and Deadline reports that it is now slated for release in 2026. “The update was provided by Laura Lancaster ...