Learn how molecular rhythms inside maggots could help investigators refine the window for determining time of death.

Heart attacks that occur at night are less severe than those that strike during the day. A new study from the Centro Nacional ...

Molecular clocks in our cells synchronize our bodies with the cycle of night and day, cue us for sleep and waking, and drive daily cycles in virtually every aspect of our physiology. Scientists ...

A discovery by FIU researchers could help forensic investigators close the gap on estimating the time of a person's death.

Cells with a functioning molecular clock are better able to adapt to changes in glucose supply and can recover faster from long-term starvation, according to a new study. Cells with a functioning ...

Scientists have discovered that complex life began evolving much earlier than traditional models suggested. Using an expanded ...

For this article, Steve Bunk interviewed S. Blair Hedges, evolutionary biologist, Pennsylvania State University. Data from the Web of Science (ISI, Philadelphia) show that Hot Papers are cited 50 to ...

Complex life may have started its rise in Earth’s oxygen-free oceans nearly a billion years earlier than anyone imagined.

Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have used fruit flies to study how daily eating patterns are regulated. They found that the quasimodo (qsm) gene helped sync feeding to ...