Ian Randall is Newsweek's Deputy Science Editor, based in Royston, U.K. His focus is reporting on science and health. He has covered archeology, geology, and physics extensively. Ian joined ...

Arrange balls into a row of piles according to these rules: 1. The first and last piles contain one ball. 2. If two neighbouring piles aren’t the same size, the change in height is either an ...

As threats become faster and more sophisticated, the SOC must evolve. I've personally witnessed three distinct phases of SOC evolution. I like to refer to them as SOC 1.0 (Traditional SOC), SOC 2.0 ...

Omicron looked like it had achieved four or five years’ worth of expected evolution in just months, Jesse Bloom, who studies viral evolution at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, told me at the ...

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Population: An individual with EGFR-mutant lung cancer. End points: Cancer evolution and immunology analyses to reveal treatment-resistance mechanisms. Conclusion: Variants arising before whole ...

Evolution has shaped life on Earth for billions of years. Organisms adapt to their surroundings, developing traits that help them survive. From bacteria resisting antibiotics to viruses mutating to ...

The work provides the first experimental evidence showing how natural selection can shape genetic systems to enhance future capacity for evolution, challenging traditional perspectives on ...

While this timeline is certainly not comprehensive, consider it a primer on all things short and curly, and a tool to let us collectively honor the beauty and evolution of lady pubes. We’re ...

But the outlook for software developers is more likely evolution than extinction, according to experienced software engineers, industry analysts and academics. For decades, better tools have ...

These findings reshape our understanding of theropod evolution and reveal a unique predator hierarchy in Cretaceous Australia. Led by Museums Victoria Research Institute and Monash University PhD ...

In the final edition of The Origin of Species, published in 1872, Darwin emphasized that his theory of evolution hinged on several factors: natural selection; spontaneous variation (mutation ...