Jupiter and Saturn look serene through a backyard telescope, but beneath and around their clouds, both worlds are in dramatic ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

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 ...

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

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

Marija Balic, MD, discusses how circulating tumor DNA assays for molecular residual disease detection have evolved in recent ...

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

Living close to humans doesn’t just change landscapes—it can also change animals themselves. A new genetic study shows that ...

At the bottom of the world’s trenches, there’s a fish that shouldn’t exist. Here’s how it earned the title of the ...

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 ...

Four billion years ago, Earth was violent, hot, and unstable. Yet new research suggests that by then, life had already ...