For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and proteins are largely neutral: they're neither good nor bad, but just ordinary ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

ANN ARBOR—For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and proteins are largely neutral: they're neither good nor bad, but just ...

Scientists have discovered a 151-million-year-old fossil fly in Australia that challenges ideas about insect evolution. Named ...

In 1943, a physicist and a biologist published a paper that confirmed one of the central pillars of Darwin's theory of evolution. The paper, by Max Delbrück of Vanderbilt University and Salvador Luria ...

This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. Experts were sure that the 20th century would make us stupid. Never before had culture and technology reshaped daily ...

The Dark Forest theory is one proposed solution to the famed Fermi Paradox, which has bewitched astronomers for more than half a century. To put it concisely, the paradox asks if the cosmos is nearly ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

The Major Histocompatibility Complex region evolves via gene birth-and-death, resulting in short-lived genes, rapidly expanding gene subfamilies, and many gene fragments.

Michael A. Little does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Belief that a ‘corrupt elite is secretly running the world’ is one of the longest-running and most widespread conspiracy ...