The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we ...

We may be witnessing the moment when our ancestors first defied a hostile world, using the same tools in the same place for ...

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Saliva is a bodily fluid most of us take for granted despite the significant roles it plays: aiding in digestion, maintaining ...

Fossilized facial bones discovered at Sima del Elefante in northern Spain date to 1.4 million years ago, the oldest human remains ever found in Western Europe. The individual, nicknamed “Pink,” may ...

Since the Ice Age, elkhorn and staghorn corals off Florida’s southern coast have been stacking their skeletons into elaborate, branching homes for parrotfish, eels and octopuses. “They’ve been the ...

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Carly D. Kenkel has received funding from NSF, NOAA, The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group, the Mary Gard ...

The Pan American Health Organization is reporting another human death from the bird flu. As of August, there have been 76 human cases and two deaths in five countries in the Americas, according to the ...

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And then there were none. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals and plants have now gone extinct. The 2025 list of extinctions ...

Lead exposure has been thought to be a uniquely modern phenomenon. Exposure to lead by ancient humans could have given modern humans a survival advantage over other species – more specifically, their ...