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Evolutionary Biology
From smartphone envy to life dissatisfaction, the root cause of much unhappiness is that we are wired to imagine how things could be better.
Genetic profiles of many dog breeds appear as if siblings mated.
Embark on a journey through one of the most profound ecological transitions in the history of complex life.
Origin of life studies have always focused on a set of strict environments that could give rise to life. Ante-life opens new possibilities.
Neuroscientist and author Bobby Azarian explores the idea that the Universe is a self-organizing system that evolves and learns.
The cycles of life all rely on the dynamism of the Earth's crust.
Nobody knows where the word "penguin" comes from.
Left-handed humans were likelier to get stabbed in the heart.
"You gotta know when to fold 'em."
Science isn't synonymous with technology; it's about a way of thinking.
Frozen adversity set the stage for an explosion of diversity.
The puzzle of play
The purpose of play — for children, monkeys, rats or meerkats — has proved surprisingly hard to pin down. Scientists continue to toss around ideas.
Most people care what others think of them. In many situations, that can be leveraged for the common good.
In the beginning, genes weren't needed.
John Templeton Foundation
More than 90 percent of people make a mistake on this test.
Most male mammals have little or nothing to do with their kids. Why is our own species different?
Being a jerk gets you rich, promoted, and laid (if you're a man). But there is a downside.
Bees learn and culturally transmit their communication skills.
At least one of Earth's creatures is able to survive the vacuum of space.
The road to intelligent life is a series of hard steps.
Only humans can voluntarily conjure new objects and events in our minds.
Deep underwater, temperatures are close to freezing and the pressure is 1,000 times higher than at sea level.
Darwin missed an amazing example of evolution.
According to Peter Ward's "Medea hypothesis," photosynthesizing organisms regularly doom most life on Earth by over-consuming carbon dioxide.
Slimy biofilms made up of bacterial and eukaryotic life forms have taken over an abandoned, flooded uranium mine in Germany.
Disease kills off 40% of farmed catfish. This gene protects them.
There might be a hard limit to our knowledge of the Universe.
Ancient bones reveal that domesticated felines were at home in Pre-Neolithic Poland around 8,000 years ago.