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The modern cultivated strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa) originates from interspecific hybridization between two octoploid wild ...

A Yale-led study warns that global climate change may have a devastating effect on butterflies, turning their species-rich, ...

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Multilevel selection is a controversial concept originally proposed by Darwin. A new study found evidence for it in the wild ...

Researchers at academic institutions nationwide say that U.S. science is being dismantled. Government Science Data: Vast ...

Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together.