In most cases, evolution is a pretty slow process, taking hundreds if not thousands of years—but when humans enter the picture, some animals have to evolve at light speed in order to survive in a ...

In a quiet freshwater pond in Ibaraki Prefecture near Tokyo, researchers have pulled from the water a microscopic giant that is forcing biologists to rethink how complex life began. The newly ...

A duplicated gene evolved into a switch that determines sex in frogs, revealing how evolution can safely reshape critical ...

Readers are spoiled for choice when it comes to popular science reading this month, with new titles by major names including Maggie Aderin and Michael Pollan ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has discovered a crucial piece in the puzzle of how all animals with a ...

Researchers traced termite DNA back to cockroach ancestors and found genetic loss played a key role in building social ...

Neural circuits in the brain are highly sophisticated biological systems, orchestrating ultra-fast, parallel computations ...

Artificial intelligence allows tracing the evolution of genetic control elements in the developing mammalian cerebellum.

The researchers took a “safety-first” approach. They deliberately excluded all viruses that infect humans or animals from the ...

When Dr Justin Garcia first started dating his now-wife, he suggested they should do what he knew from his research would be ...

Asking people to judge penis sizes in the name of science might seem random, but experts say there’s value in this. MH spoke ...

A large comparative study of primate teeth shows that grooves once linked to ancient human tooth-picking can form naturally, while some common modern dental problems appear uniquely human.