“It might start becoming the top circulating lineage,” Rajnaranayam said, predicting XEC will take the rest of October and ...

Dr. Flojaune Cofer and Assemblymember Kevin McCarty discuss why they are running to become Sacramento’s next mayor. Also, getting information on this year’s election from CapRadio’s voter guide.

from tree-climbing in early species to more ground-based lifestyles in later ones. The evolution of pterosaurs, the first true flying vertebrates, showcases some of the most remarkable adaptations ...

Funding Sacramento’s libraries through Measure E. A new study from UC Davis Health restores communication to people who cannot speak. Finally, a new English-Farsi book collection is helping ...

A lower-fungus-farming worker of the rare fungus-farming ant species Mycetophylax asper, collected in Santa Catarina, Brazil, in 2014, on its fungus garden. Credit: Don Parsons. Note to editors: ...

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The paper, "Noise leads to the perceived increase in evolutionary rates over short times scales," was written by Brian C. O'Meara, a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology ...

It would generate returns, too. By Manuela Andreoni What if financial markets treated trees like shareholders? Enter the Tropical Forests Forever Facility, a new fund that Brazil, which is home to ...

For decades, researchers have observed that rates of evolution seem to accelerate over short time periods – say five million years versus fifty million years. This broad pattern has suggested that ...

3, in the journal Science, scientists at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History analyzed genetic data from hundreds of species of fungi and ants to craft detailed evolutionary trees.

Published Thursday in Science, the research from Schultz and colleagues examined genetic data from 276 species of ants and 475 fungi species to create evolutionary trees of both groups.