Recent fossil discoveries and DNA analyses are transforming our perspective on the history of life on Earth. These findings ...

The idea of ‘biological agency’ — that life devises its own goals and behaves accordingly — complicates our understanding of ...

A new landmark study has uncovered evidence that challenges the long-held beliefs about human evolution.

Real estate should not just be about constructing buildings. It should also be about engineering better ways of living.

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

Humanlike fossils have emerged from the deep and twisting caverns of the Rising Star cave system in South Africa over the past decade — and what they have revealed has ...

Only a handful manual Grad Prixes are known today, of the total of 52 built that model year, and this particular example is ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from China reveal that bryozoans were already thriving during the Cambrian explosion.

Most states now offer weeks of in person early voting or expansive voting by mail; many offer both. That convenience — used ...

In fact, when they were tickled, laughter from both apes and humans was isochronous, meaning that the laughs followed a ...

"Today, your wellbeing is determined less and less by your personal biology and more and more by the cultural systems that surround you – your community, your nation, your technologies. And the ...

Even Charles Darwin was puzzled by the evolution of the vertebrate eye. New research suggests that it traces back to a cyclopean invertebrate with a single eye atop the head. By Carl Zimmer Look at ...