Evolution might allow for multiple optimal solutions, depending on the constraints and conditions under which an organism ...

And few fossils capture our imagination quite like those of the dinosaurs who lived millions of years ago. This interactive ...

Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

Scientists have traced the evolutionary origin of humans' outer ears to the gills of ancient fish through a series of ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the WASP-132 system, finding two new planets that defy previous ...

Some amino acids can be built in two ways that mirror each other, like a pair of right and left hands. Life on Earth uses the ...

Scientists found that fruit fly embryos can develop through multiple genetic paths, not just one. This challenges traditional ideas.

Although they don't impact the surface directly, historical evidence and simulations suggest airbursts can pack a punch.

The author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club on the science that lies behind his novel Alien Clay, set on a ...

and the geologist who ten years ago was embarrassed by the shortness of the time allowed to him for the evolution of the earth's crust is now still more embarrassed by the superabundance with ...

“Evolution isn't just a story about where we came from. It's an epic at the center of life itself.”– Kenneth R. Miller, Biologist, Brown University If you are reading this sentence, you’re ...

A recent study at Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Institute of Science Tokyo has developed a theoretical model that uncovers the dual role of polyploidy—organisms carrying extra genome ...