PROTEUS, a system designed to harness “directed evolution,” can speed the process up by years, or even decades.

A new study examining stick and leaf insect species has found evidence of convergent evolution, with all of the insects evolving similar characteristics despite diverging long ago. Convergent ...

Evolution by natural selection peerlessly describes how life’s complexity develops — but can it be explained in terms of physics? A new approach suggests it can. Radical theory explains how ...