Evolution isn’t just about biology — it’s about ideas, words, and culture. Richard Dawkins and John McWhorter break down how ...

The bacteria Acinetobacter baumannii (A. baumannii) is a haunting presence in many hospitals in the United States, where more than one in 100 patients are treated for A. baumannii infections. This ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

This is a type of science that has an impact that most people could see in their homes,” said Erin Hecht, a canine researcher ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring ...

A fish thought to be evolution’s time capsule just surprised scientists. A detailed dissection of the coelacanth — a 400-million-year-old species often called a “living fossil” — revealed that key ...

In a suspected case of reverse evolution, wild tomatoes in the Galápagos have developed a defense mechanism that hasn’t been seen in millions of years.

What scientific knowledge is and is not presumed in legal reasoning, and what are the differences between what is and what is ...

Astronomers have discovered that aging stars may be devouring their closest giant planets as they swell into red giants.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently published a religion and science addition to its Topics and Questions series addressing four subjects: the general compatibility of science and ...