An evolutionary "trap" has haunted crested and marbled newts for 25 million years: Leiden researchers have uncovered a mysterious DNA error that should not be able to arise—yet persists all the same.
High in the Ecuadorian Andes, at altitudes thousands of meters above sea level, humans face environmental pressures very ...
From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...
Humans are far closer to meerkats and beavers for levels of exclusive mating than we are to most of our primate cousins, ...
Fossil skulls reveal how extinct mammals smelled the world, with new research linking olfactory bulb size to gene counts.
For decades, a neat story about human origins has floated through textbooks and documentaries: modern humans emerged in East ...
Four academics at Queen Mary University of London are among 349 researchers to be awarded a prestigious European Research ...
What I have learned after two hours playing an early build of Everything is Crab is that you're all very lucky that the path ...
Fundamental truths and encouraging news offer common ground for launching successful climate action. Contrary to long-running ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has fired experts on the vaccine advisory committee to the CDC and has said, without evidence, that ...
Researchers discovered that a tiny structural feature of the enzyme GPX4 helps keep neurons safe. A rare mutation removes ...