(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have brought us to a major turning point in our evolutionary journey. According ...

For decades, ever since biologists recognized the potential environmental harms from climate change, they have worried that ...

Rudy Lerosey-Aubril A tiny claw in a 500-million-year-old fossil just rewrote the origin story of spiders. After a full da ...

Scientists have discovered fossils in China that reveal a crucial transition from simple to complex life on Earth.

A new study shows evidence of “evolutionary rescue”—a kind of rapid evolution in which organisms genetically adapt to severe ...

Scientists are continuously looking for a way to improve the storage capacity on hard drives, but they might need to be ...