For decades, the asteroid that ended the reign of the dinosaurs has stood as a symbol of total planetary devastation. But ...

The so-called magneto-sensitive fluorescent proteins or MFPs, overcome key limitations of previous biological candidates for quantum sensors.

The pursuit to fulfill this mandate not only brings clarity to our meaning and purpose in this world, but it also creates the physiology within us that leads to satisfaction, happiness, health, and ...

Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World by Harvey Whitehouse, Penguin Random House, 2024, pp 464, ₹699. The EPW produces independent and public-spirited scholarship and analyses of ...

This video explores some of the toughest and most resilient creatures living in the harshest environments on Earth. Scientists highlight species that withstand crushing ocean pressure, boiling heat, ...

A new paper by evolutionary anthropologists Colin Shaw (University of Zurich) and Daniel Longman (Loughborough University) argues that modern life has outpaced human evolution. The study suggests that ...

For well over a century, Darwin’s theory of natural selection has served as biology’s grand unifying framework, explaining how species adapt and evolve through the differential replication of randomly ...

This summer marks the 100th anniversary of the Scopes Trial. On July 21, 1925, a jury in Dayton, Tenn., convicted John Scopes, a high school science teacher, of violating the state’s Butler Act, which ...

The 1925 Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, was one of the earliest and most iconic conflicts in America’s ...

(The Conversation) — The 1925 Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, was one of the earliest and most iconic ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1950 the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi was discussing the possibility of intelligent alien life with his colleagues. If alien ...

The Indigenous peoples of the Bolivian highlands are survivors. For thousands of years they have lived at altitudes of more than two miles, where oxygen is about 35 percent lower than at sea level.