Human evolution has long been tied to growing brain size, and new research suggests prenatal hormones may have played a surprising role. By studying the relative lengths of index and ring fingers — a ...

In the oceans and on land, scientists are discovering rare, transitional organisms that bridge the gap between Earth’s simplest cells and today’s complex ones. By Carl Zimmer A flurry of new studies ...

Has AI coding reached a tipping point? That seems to be the case for Spotify at least, which shared this week during its fourth-quarter earnings call that the best developers at the company “have not ...

When plant biologist Jing-Yi Lu was earning his bachelor’s degree in Taiwan, he began to take note of the local flora. He paid particular attention to the lipstick vines, which, in Taiwan, have short, ...

Mustangs are everywhere. Rare Mustangs are not. This guy claims finding a car like his M-code Silver Jade specimen is incredibly hard. And while production numbers might not make this car the most ...

February 12 is Darwin Day, marking the birth anniversary of Charles Darwin. Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection changed biology forever. His ideas still guide research in genetics, ...

The stratospheric run of gold has encouraged Evolution Mining to expand production in NSW, as the $30 billion miner rewarded investors with a bumper dividend after posting record first-half results.

Rhythm is everywhere. Even if you don't think you have it — it's fundamental to humans' biological systems. Our heartbeat is rhythmic. Speech is rhythmic. Even as newborn babies, humans can track ...

Biological evolution is the heritable change in characteristics of biological populations over successive generations, driven by mechanisms such as mutation, recombination, genetic drift, gene flow, ...