Nearly 200 years after Charles Darwin stepped off the HMS Beagle, his luggage is still giving up secrets. We often think of the story of how we came up with the theory of evolution by natural ...

Discover the evolutionary story behind the human chin. Learn how craniofacial changes and mandibular traits shaped this ...

All complex biological systems—like the DNA, RNA and proteins constantly being copied and built within our cells—are prone to errors. That means as life evolved to be more elaborate, it also had to ...

How evolution shapes color diversity in coral reef fish Why does a Caribbean angelfish sometimes resemble its Indo-Pacific cousin, even though they have never lived in the same ocean? Why do coral ...

For anyone who ever felt different growing up—too quiet, too literal, too sensitive for the world around them—Sheldon ...

Evolution is perhaps the most extraordinary story ever told—a tale spanning billions of years that connects every living thing on Earth through an intricate ...

The story of life’s beginnings gets stranger when you look closely at viruses. These tiny entities seem to sit at the edge of ...

For renowned British engineer Stuart Burgess, the human hand, without question, is the pinnacle of mechanical engineering, ...

Intelligent, tool-using, empathetic and self-aware: the distance between humans and other animals is not as great as you ...

Baez called for the development of new mathematics — he called it “green” math — to better capture the workings of Earth’s biosphere and climate. For his part, he sought to apply category theory, a ...

Commentary: We have people promoting conspiracy “theories” for a variety of reasons. The one thing they all have in common is the lack of verifiable evidence.