evolution
Synthetic biology is changing the way the planet works.
Despite the moniker, bedbugs evolved long before mattresses and even survived the K-T extinction.
From deejays to Debussy, it’s all brain food.
If you don’t want to know anything about your death, consider this your spoiler warning.
People trust Mother Nature to keep us healthy, forgetting that evolution is brutal and uncaring.
A high-schooler’s dig experience writes a new chapter in T-Rex history.
Surprising studies revealed why mothers affected the genetic pool more than fathers.
Here’s why stars fade out — and so do we.
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Meet the anole, a fascinating lizard with remarkable powers of adaptation.
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Psychopaths are manipulative, violent, impulsive, and lack empathy — but if psychopathy encourages more frequent reproduction, is it, then, an advantageous strategy?
Experts argue the jaws of an ancient European ape reveal a key human ancestor.
There are reasons you look the way you do.
In general, birds of a feather do tend to flock together.
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A long-ridiculed theory about humankind’s early leap of consciousness is revived.
The new fossil offers insight into when whales returned to the oceans millions of years ago.
Devil facial tumor disease, or DFTD, has cut the Tasmanian devil population by 90 percent. Now, some devils have evolved to resist the virulent cancer.
Scientists discovered microbes that have lived on Earth for millions of years.
A primer on the infinite of knowledge waiting to be learned.
Evolutionarily speaking, being gay is still something of an enigma
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We spent a day with a primate expert to find out.
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Chinese scientists find a 600-million-year-old creature.
Upload your mind? Here’s a reality check on the Singularity.
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Evolution doesn’t clean up after itself very well.
The dogs’ ability to recognise and process human faces surpasses even that of monkeys. This newly-identified brain region may be the reason why.
We knew the Chicxulub crater was massive. We just didn’t know how widespread the damage actually was.
Carl Sagan—who first coined the term—was tempted to call them “star-tar.”
