A new study theorizes that evolution ticks at different speeds, especially when a big group of organisms first appears.

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...

Blue blood may look alien, but it’s one of evolution’s most elegant solutions to life in extreme environments. Here’s how ...

The conservation of genome regulatory elements over long periods of evolution is not limited to vertebrates, as previously ...

The production of clean hydrogen through water electrolysis is a promising route toward emission-free and sustainable energy ...

The convention pin era roughly coincided with the early years of the internet. National Journal’s website was for a time known as PoliticsNow, and the editors used pins to increase its name ...

A reduced genome in an island species raises evolutionary questions.

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

Reconstructed ancient enzymes reveal how cannabis evolved specialized cannabinoid production while offering new tools for biotechnology and medicine. Where do familiar cannabis compounds such as THC, ...

Galaxy clusters are formed by a dense packing of many galaxies, making them the most massive structures in the universe.

Much like the New Year's Eve celebrations of recent memory, the 1976 party on Louisville's downtown riverfront featured ...

According to new research recently published in the journal Nature Communications, the Greenland shark retained its visual ...