For ages, wall lizards coexisted in three distinct color types, each with its own strategy for survival. Now, a powerful ...

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Cyanobacteria—ancient microbes that oxygenated Earth and made complex life possible—are still revealing surprises billions of ...

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

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

April 26 marks the 40th anniversary of the explosion at Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. The ...

There’s more history in your blood types than you think, and it didn’t begin with humans. Here’s what we know about them, ...

The bacterial flagellar motor is finally understood after 50 years. In its workings, columnist Natalie Wolchover finds the ...

A study finds an increase in redheads over 10,000 years due to natural selection, highlighting ongoing human evolution and ...

Ancient DNA reveals how farming accelerated human evolution, driving genetic changes over the past 10,000 years.

Multiple groundbreaking studies are rewriting timelines of human evolution, from genetic adaptations over the last 10,000 years to ancient DNA suggesting Neanderthals shared language-related sequences ...