A world of self-improving machines has lived in fiction for more than a century. What gives that old fear new force now is ...

Charles Darwin, born in 1809, revolutionized biology with his theory of evolution. His observations during the HMS Beagle ...

They scanned a pigeon-sized fossil no one thought much of. Under UV light, soft tissue glowed back, and a 160-year argument ...

In celebration of Darwin’s most colourful festival turning 10 years old, organisers have planned a few extra surprises for ...

This week, we continue our look at evolutionary theories of the origin of life and the extreme challenges they face. One of the major hurdles concerns the amount of time ...

Instead of being controlled by a single ‘master gene,’ evolution appears to draw on an entire network of interacting genes, ...

Two University of Chicago scholars have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, joining other scientists and researchers chosen in “recognition of their distinguished and continuing ...

Poison frogs appear to have built their chemical defenses gradually: related frogs store low to moderate levels of ...

The future of artificial intelligence might not be as much a story about engineering as a story about evolution.

KUNMING — Chinese scientists have discovered well-preserved multicellular animal fossils in Ediacaran strata of eastern Yunnan province, indicating that complex animal communities existed in oceans ...

If Charles Darwin lived today, he wouldn't have to voyage any further than the London underground to find evolution in action. In the subway tunnels mosquitos have not only adapted to life underground ...