What if humans are not meant to age this fast? One scientist suggests the answer might go back to the time of dinosaurs, when ...

How do our genes determine our appearance and our susceptibility to disease? This question is central to biomedical research, ...

Scientists have shown that evolution has been using the same genetic "cheat sheet" for over 120 million years, suggesting ...

The Templeton Prize, awarded by the John Templeton Foundation, is one of the world’s largest annual individual awards. It is ...

Humans are hard-wired to see conspiracy. I try to supress these feelings sometimes, but it's become impossible.

Some of the smallest organisms might have influenced our own evolutionary path. A new study has found that the distribution ...

If you look at a Neanderthal skull and a Homo sapiens skull, they’re visibly different: Neanderthal skulls are lower and longer, whereas ours tend to be rounder. However, those differences probably ...

Genomic data provides evidence for a previously unknown wave of migration, with Indigenous groups living in central and ...

In “The Story of Birds,” the familiar creatures in our skies and backyards are reintroduced as the last surviving dinosaurs.

A new study is the first to show that two of our most sophisticated cognitive functions, using and understanding language and being able to sense how other people feel, have distinct origins in the ...

My cats almost never meow at each other, only at me. I learnt that the meow is a sound cats developed for us across ten ...

You probably grabbed your phone or took a sip of water with your right hand. If you’re like most people (about 9 out of 10), ...