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Feb 22, 2013 01:38 PM EST

Evolution Gave Humans Unique Brain Structure: Other Primates Out of Luck

Evolution may have given humans a unique brain structure that gave them a leg up over other primates--are we really surprised?

Feb 01, 2013 03:44 PM EST

Human-Directed Evolution in Petri Dish Creates Artificial Proto Enzyme

Human-directed evolution in a petri dish led to the creation of what is believed to resemble a primordial enzyme, one of the first elements of life billions of years ago which doesn't exist anymore today since proteins evolved to have a different form.

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Jan 25, 2013 04:02 PM EST

Natural Selection Algorithm Used to Make Super Efficient Solar Cell Pattern

A novel approach for the optimization of a solar cell pattern was chosen by researchers at Northwestern University. They aimed at designing an optimized geometric pattern of the scattering layer that would maximize the amount of time light remained trapped within the cell, thus leading to more effic...

Dec 26, 2012 01:12 PM EST

Human evolution was critically influenced by climate fluctuations says study

Human evolution could have been accelerated by rapid environmental changes that happened around 2 million years ago in East Africa, instead of a slow one time change in climate, as previously thought. Researchers at Penn State and Rutgers University found that "the landscape early humans were inhabi...

Oct 21, 2012 03:28 PM EDT

Astronomers Reveal Pattern of Change in Evolution of Galaxies

A detailed study on the galaxies observed by the Keck telescopes in Hawaii and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has given insights into the evolution of galaxies.