This series is a thought experiment that looks at common sense from a different angle, using hints from science, philosophy, ...

Gut bacteria can acquire genes from neighboring microbes, adding to the genetic differences linked to how people live.

The genus Picea (spruce) is widely distributed across the Northern Hemisphere and is a dominant component of boreal and ...

In East Africa in the 1990s, Meave Leakey and the Hominid Gang discovered apelike creatures who walked upright four million ...

A groundbreaking discovery is rewriting the story of human evolution, revealing that an ancient human species once thought to be an evolutionary dead end may have left genetic traces in people alive ...

Mammalian-fish hybrid creatures have a role in Japanese folklore through the ningyo, which are a mermaidlike yokai, a supernatural being thought to have the power to either curse or grant eternal life ...

Approximately 4 billion years have passed since life first emerged on Earth.Over a long period, life has changed its form, adapted to its environment, and continued to evolve.Life that originated in ...

A new scientific review suggests that ancient supercontinents, mountain building, and changes in Earth's magnetic field ...

What greater magic can there be than the signature trick of all leaf magicians when they extract a rare gas from the ...

Scientists once dismissed jumping genes as genetic parasites, but they may now hold the key to one of evolution's greatest ...

New evidence suggests that early humans reached the Jordan Valley at least 1.9 million years ago, hundreds of thousands of ...

The study provides an important empirical assessment of a non-adaptive hypothesis on transposable element evolution grounded in population genetics principles. The results suggest that the impact of ...