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 idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...

Scientists have discovered an archaea called ‘Asgard’ in the extremely high-salinity waters of Shark Bay, Australia, which ...

What causes autoimmune disease? A new study finds that somatic mutations in immune checkpoint genes like PDL1 trigger the ...

Biologists say the appendix isn’t useless after all. Evolution kept reinventing it, and it may help support gut immunity and microbes.

A nearly complete 90-million-year-old dinosaur fossil, Alnashetri cerropoliciensis, is turning evolutionary theories upside ...

Crystals, bacterial colonies, flame fronts: the growth of surfaces was first described in the 1980s by the ...

All living things have limited energy and resources, and face trade-offs between competing priorities,” observed the study’s ...

Design, materialism, and the search for purpose in a fine-tuned universe.

Genome duplication probably gave biodiversity a decisive evolutionary boost. A Chinese-German research team led by Axel Meyer ...

At first sight, stromatolites may seem unremarkable. The stromatolite formations found in Shark Bay, Western Australia, do ...

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