Thirty years ago, it was our common sense understanding that hantavirus does not and perhaps cannot spread from human to ...

In cancer research, one person's junk is increasingly becoming another person's treasure. Scientists have now uncovered new evidence showing how recently evolved "junk DNA" genetic elements can become ...

Scientists explore whether humor influenced language evolution, suggesting "survival of the wittiest" shaped communication ...

Summary: A new study has completely revived and expanded this lost chapter of human evolution. Leveraging modern molecular genetic dating and advanced phylogenetic statistical modeling, researchers ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from China reveal that bryozoans were already thriving during the Cambrian explosion.

For nearly 30 years, a landmark study shaped how scientists understood the relationship between brain and body size in ...

A new analysis supports the previously overlooked "brain lag" hypothesis—the idea that, in some primate lineages, the evolution of larger body size preceded the evolution of larger brain size—while ...

We might not have to go scorched Earth after all. Contrary to popular belief, the Earth might actually weather the fiery death of the sun that’s expected to engulf our neighbors, per a relieving study ...

Judd Rosenblatt believes that we need a new idea to ensure that self-improving AI doesn't delete human values from its code ...

Is there really such a thing as human nature? The answer lies between two old extremes, and getting it right shapes how we face AI, authoritarianism, and climate.

Males of the species Drosophila melanogaster pack thousands of almost two-millimeter-long sperm cells into significantly smaller storage organs. A new study reveals how they move in an orderly manner ...

New research challenges the notion that humans have the hardest childbirth among animals, revealing that many primates, ...