Evolution doesn’t just shape bodies - it shapes ideas, sounds, and language itself. Just like genes mutate, compete, and ...

Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection transformed biology and continues to guide modern science, from ...

The Y chromosome doesn’t seem to do much except determine sex – but its loss in older men might be linked to heart disease, cancer and Alzheimer’s.

Chinese scientists, in collaboration with international research institutions, have launched a global project to explore the evolutionary history of plants and unlock genetic resources critical for ...

BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have launched an ambitious international megascience project to decode the genetic blueprint of ...

Every organism alive on Earth, from oak trees to octopuses to the bacteria in our gut, belongs to a single extended family. Genetic evidence points back to one ancestral cell, a last common forebear ...

In June, 2025, the Wellcome Trust announced an ambitious £10 million UK project called the Synthetic Human Genome Project (SynHG) and claimed it “will unlock a deeper understanding of life, leading to ...

In a tiny town tucked into the desert an hour’s drive out of Nevada, a legal brothel operates. Its ...

The Drakensberger cattle breed has been part of the South African landscape for ages. So-called black indigenous cattle ...

Animals may not celebrate Valentine’s Day, but courtship rituals, pair bonding and fierce competition shape love in the wild.

California-based technologist and author Rajeev Nanda invites readers on a gripping intellectual and emotional journey with his latest book, “LOH,” which has achieved Amazon Bestseller status as #8 in ...

A baby Asian elephant was born at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute for the first time in ...