A major evolutionary theory says most genetic changes don’t really matter, but new evidence suggests that’s not true. Researchers found that helpful mutations happen surprisingly often. The twist is ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia ...

Corrales, a recent biological sciences Ph.D. graduate from the University of Rhode Island, and his advisor, Associate ...

In this Skywatch 16, Jeremy Lewan shares how newly available data can better help study the universe, evolution of galaxies, and the search for extraterrestrial life ...

Researchers find Apennine brown bears evolved into a smaller, less aggressive animal after centuries of coexistence with ...

The Apennine brown bear, Ursus arctos marsicanus, exists nowhere else on Earth. Genetic evidence shows that this population ...

Historic climate change influenced northeast India primates’ evolution, distribution, and decline, stressing conservation urgency.

Black holes are notorious for gobbling up everything that comes their way, but astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter ...

Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

While bear attacks seem to have become a significant problem in Japan—with the country going as far as deploying the army —new research reveals that an Italian bear species has evolved to be less ...

Two inexpensive commercial materials store solar energy as electrons and release hydrogen fuel on demand in darkness, requiring no external power and setting a new performance record.