Cyanobacteria—ancient microbes that oxygenated Earth and made complex life possible—are still revealing surprises billions of ...

No direct hits are required; shock waves from a jet can ripple across hundreds of thousands of light-years to churn galactic ...

A new study comparing invasive cane toads in Japan and Australia has found substantial changes in body size and shape have ...

A study published in Science Advances shows that, in moss and the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, commonly known as thale ...

A common element in “Star Trek” and other science fiction is their depiction of humanoid alien species. If life exists ...

Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs and The Story of Birds, recommends 10 dinosaur books to dig into ...

Over 100 attendees filled NYU’s annual Darwin Lecture on Monday, where Princeton professor Lindy McBride explored how humans ...

Francis Collins explains why many of history’s greatest scientists believed faith and science could work together.

Have you ever wished to drive microscopic matter along an arbitrarily tailored trajectory instead of just a circle? That's ...

A rare fossil discovery is shedding light on the “missing years” of early sponge evolution. Scientists found a ...

(spidroins) through long-read transcriptomics across a broad phylogenetic range, with theoretical implications for protein family evolution, biomaterials, and silk biology. By identifying putative ...

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...