A new study, published July 6, 2026, in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that two of the best-known trends in ...

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Photo: Katerina Harvati Replicas of a Homo habilis skull (right) and an early Homo sapiens skull (left), illustrating two key ...

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Deep oceans contain microbes with yet-to-be-discovered properties that could drive future innovations in biotechnology.

(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have brought us to a major turning point in our evolutionary journey. According ...

Scientists tracking blind Mexican cavefish uncover a striking evolutionary reversal where existing brain circuits are rewired via dopamine to flip behavioral responses to light.

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Explaining the passage of time has been a gnarly problem in physics basically forever, but physicist and computer scientist ...

Two recent research reports reveal the scope of identity and document fraud.

In cancer research, one person's junk is increasingly becoming another person's treasure. Scientists have now uncovered new evidence showing how recently evolved "junk DNA" genetic elements can become ...