Inside the growing scientific quest to understand what creatures with the extraordinary ability to defy the ravages of time ...

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For Tauber, the VNCCII project is less about entertainment and more about elevation. “This is a call to remember,” she says. “To remember that imagination is sacred. To remember that we are made of ...

Scientists are finally decoding the orgasm face. Explore how human evolution, primate behavior, and mate selection shape our expressions of climax.

Researchers led by the University of Iowa have described and named a new crocodile species that roamed a region in Africa more than 3 million years ago. The species is named Lucy’s hunter, because it ...

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir is one of today's best science fiction books. While much of the science and math is great, it falls a bit when it comes to evolution.

New research that decoded the evolution of mosquitoes’ feeding habits from DNA could shed light on the murky timeline of prehistoric human ancestors.

Notably, the researchers point out that the strongest signals of selection “are all plausibly related to the consumption of agricultural products.” For instance, in the last 100 generations, there ...

Mosquitoes haven’t always had a taste for human blood — partly because the tiny yet dangerous insects have been around a lot ...

Most pandemic viruses that have jumped from animals to humans do not show signs of special adaptations to infect people, except the 1977 influenza outbreak, which was likely “sparked by a laboratory ...

Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab ...