Many scientists point to cultural evolution, the process by which knowledge, customs and technology spread over time. But ...

While brown and white eggs are pretty common, blue ones seem quite novel. Natural pigments are to blame for the difference, ...

A small fish that lives fast and dies young has given biologists a rare look at one of evolution’s oldest bargains. In the ...

(Koto_feja/iStock/Getty Images Plus) We know that almost two-thirds of people with Alzheimer's disease are women, but what's ...

On a stormy evening in 1827, Ludwig van Beethoven died in Vienna after years of declining health that had already pulled him ...

A large bird of prey was sitting still, quietly perched on a tree branch inside a steel cage at the Ninoy Aquino Parks and ...

Tom Klak, an environmental scientist and American chestnut expert, carried a shovel on the White House lawn on April 24, ...

Typically, the information encoded in DNA allows organisms to develop, function, and pass traits across generations. Yet DNA ...

Researchers relied on a newer gene-editing technique that may make it possible to engineer embryos, a prospect that has long ...

A new study reveals that an extremely small change in a non-coding region of DNA can dramatically alter how sex develops in ...

How did life make the leap from single cells to coordinated, multicellular organisms? And how do genetically identical cells ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe. Modern humans descended from ...