The very first humans millions of years ago may have been inventors, according to a discovery in northwest Kenya. Researchers ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis ...

New research reveals that Earth’s so-called “Boring Billion” was a time of dramatic change beneath the surface.

Zomato founder Deepinder Goyal announced on Saturday a personal investment of $25 million to launch Continue Research, a ...

A new biological law has been proposed offering key insights into the processes of evolution and aging. Biological laws are recognized patterns that hold true for a group of living organisms. For ...

From CRISPR to gene banking, synthetic biology has big implications for wildlife evolution and conservation, but ethical ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1950 the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi was discussing the possibility of intelligent alien life with his colleagues. If alien ...

From natural selection to the history of nature -- From the units of inheritance to the origin of species -- Multicellularity and the developmental code -- Life cycle evolution : life and death of the ...

Aldronda Alonzo (left) and Pa Skaw Le feel the texture of a model brain Nov. 7 at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine booth at the Cedar Valley Family STEM Festival at the Five Sullivan ...

While the Vatican acknowledges stages of technological development, it lacks a model of integrating science and religion that can adequately assess the influence of technology. The Vatican's approach, ...