The belief that basic or pure research lays the foundation for applied research was fixed in science policy circles by Vannevar Bush's 1945 report on Science: The Endless Frontier. Unfortunately, his ...

Biological communities are rarely stable. Their composition is constantly changing, depending on the environmental conditions ...

A new mathematical model of ecology created by University of Chicago scientists provides the most accurate reproduction to date of natural biodiversity, according to a new paper in the journal Nature.

Models of adaptive speciation are typically concerned with demonstrating that it is possible for ecologically driven disruptive selection to lead to the evolution of assortative mating and hence ...

Boats ply a lake in Dinghu Mountain National Nature Reserve in Zhaoqing, Guangdong province, in October 2019. HE RONG/FOR CHINA DAILY International experts have praised President Xi Jinping's concept ...