For decades, ever since biologists recognized the potential environmental harms from climate change, they have worried that ...

The transition from water to land is a question that still intrigues scientists. Those ancient organisms would have needed to ...

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found evidence that the spinning of a small comet slowed and then ...

Microbes are usually invisible to our naked eye, but they surprisingly play significant roles in shaping the world around us. These tiny organisms are known to adapt, mutate, and evolve in incredible ...

David George Haskell has a new book on the flowers that put the rain in rainforests and that challenge the teachings of Darwin ...

A new study reveals the surprisingly convergent evolution in the inner ear of mammals. An international research team led by Nicole Grunstra from the University of Vienna and Anne Le Maître from the ...

The peppered moth is an iconic example of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. For centuries peppered moths (Biston betularia) were common in the forests around Manchester, ...

The plan was simple. Make a quick stop at a geologic feature that would provide a real-world example of topics that were being discussed in my biology classes. The topic was evolution and I was ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have evolved testicles of all different sizes. In almost all these separate cases, ...

The trajectory of AI's evolution underscores its potential to transform industries and society, and elevate our daily lives. Provided byMicrosoft and NVIDIA In March 2016, the world witnessed a unique ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1950 the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi was discussing the possibility of intelligent alien life with his colleagues. If alien ...