The evolution of total genome size has remained an enigma in genetics for more than half a century. Recent insights from large-scale genome-sequencing projects are shedding new light on the nature, ...

1. A large body of literature has addressed macroecological interactions between abundance, geographic range size and body size across species in animal assemblages. Studies have examined a variety of ...

You probably know that our solar system is big. But do you have a grasp on just how big it really is? No. A filmmaker and his buddies went to a dried-up lakebed in Nevada to do just that. The vast ...

Closing up the remotely controlled 1:150 scale model car. (credit: diorama111) For many people having a miniature version of something like a car is already a miracle in itself, but there’s always the ...

If Earth were as small as a marble, the solar system out to Neptune would cover an area the size of San Francisco — and that's just in two dimensions. That point is driven home by a new video called ...