You probably grabbed your phone or took a sip of water with your right hand. If you’re like most people (about 9 out of 10), ...

Why do 90% of humans reach with the same hand? The answer stretches back millions of years and involves fossils, language and ...

As global warming accelerates, extreme heat waves are causing widespread death of tropical reef corals. Most corals rely on ...

A short period of heat stress changed genes in fruit flies, and these changes lasted for generations. Some offspring even ...

Dr Peter Verheyen discusses the transition from quantum-scale events to the emergence of subjective consciousness ...

The ‘sea unicorn’ is an evolutionary anomaly. What few know is that the narwhal’s iconic ‘horn’ is actually a tooth, shaped ...

Among the myriad of actions performed exclusively by humans, crying appears to be the most enigmatic. While no other animals ...

Adrian Woolfson discusses "artivolution," the future of engineered species, and the implications for humanity and nature.

The Templeton Prize honours those who harness the power of the sciences to explore the deepest questions of the universe and ...

Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act ...

A landmark review reveals conserved core cycles and sequential innovations that drove the diversification of land plants, ...

A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...