Years of research on the evolution of ancient life, including the dinosaurs, have been questioned after a fatal flaw in the way fossil data is analysed was exposed by scientists from the universities ...

Credit: Gordon Johnson, Pixabay, 2020. Today marks 164 years since the publication of Charles Darwin’s revolutionary “On the Origin of Species”, one of the most influential scientific books ever ...

Explore our campus, meet lecturers and current students, and learn more about what it's like to study at Manchester. Research in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences covers three main ...

Combining the principles of evolution with artificial intelligence (AI), scientists have proposed a new way to predict the chance of prostate cancer returning. In a recent study, they harnessed ...

Twenty-first century neuroscience is an enticing field of research that offers the potential to deliver novel insights into the cognition of the human brain and the molecular mechanisms behind brain ...

For over a century, the reigning dogma in evolution has been that mutations — changes in the DNA — arise as blind accidents in the genome, leaving the survival of the fittest to separate the ...

Polar bears evolved from coastal populations of brown bears that began to hunt for marine prey. This behavioural shift created a selection pressure that favoured feet ...

Focus: Tracking the evolution of fern diversity through space and time We are tracking the evolution of fern diversity through space and time. This project aims to explore the origin of fern diversity ...

There are few hotter topics than generative AI and its impact on society. What is beyond question is that it will be a powerful labour-saving device in many workplaces, including academia. Scopus AI, ...