Scientists analyze 22,000 genomes documenting hundreds of genetic changes due to natural selection over the past 10,000 years ...

In 2001 scientists studying human language made a breakthrough: by looking at the DNA of a family with a rare speech ...

Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act ...

Why do 90% of humans reach with the same hand? The answer stretches back millions of years and involves fossils, language and ...

A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...

Teeth are like tiny biological time capsules. They tell stories about ancient diets and environments long after their owners ...

As global warming accelerates, extreme heat waves are causing widespread death of tropical reef corals. Most corals rely on ...

A landmark genetic study analyzing nearly 16,000 ancient and modern West Eurasian genomes has revealed that human evolution ...

Multiple new studies are reshaping our understanding of how environmental pressures influence life on Earth. Ancient DNA research from tens of thousands of ancient and modern genomes reveals that ...

A Harvard study indicates natural selection has favored red hair for millennia, suggesting redheads may become more common as ...

Hard sci-fi focuses on scientific accuracy, and movies like Primer and Arrival prove that this grounded approach can still ...

For centuries, people tried to build ornithopters that flapped like birds, but none became a practical path to human flight.