Physicists have spent decades treating mass as something the universe simply hands to particles, a property encoded in ...

It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Analysis of hundreds of single-cell genomes from Yellowstone National Park shows bacterial species are less cohesive than previously thought.

The origins of consciousness date back about 540 million years ago, when animal bodies became more complex. Feelings like ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

A major evolutionary theory says most genetic changes don’t really matter, but new evidence suggests that’s not true. Researchers found that helpful mutations happen surprisingly often. The twist is ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Shane O'Neill of The Washington Post about the word "aesthetic" and its evolution from art criticism and design theory to online speak and the White House.

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NEW DELHI: Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday informed the Lok Sabha that the theory of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin continues to be part of the National Council of Educational ...

Emerging research reveals that organisms may never fully catch up to their changing environments, opening new questions about how evolution really unfolds. Credit: Stock New research challenges the ...

For more than half a century, many biologists have leaned on the neutral theory of molecular evolution to explain how DNA and proteins change over time. The idea grew from early work in the 1960s, ...