Why do 90% of humans reach with the same hand? The answer stretches back millions of years and involves fossils, language and ...

For ages, wall lizards coexisted in three distinct color types, each with its own strategy for survival. Now, a powerful ...

Research suggests that crying is not a sign of weakness, but one of the most sophisticated social technologies in the natural ...

Most people have encountered squid through their local seafood menu or field trip to an aquarium. Unlike octopuses, which are ...

Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act ...

By the time you tell yourself there’s nothing in the dark alley, your amygdala has already disagreed. Here’s why, according ...

Genome duplication probably gave biodiversity a decisive evolutionary boost. A Chinese-German research team led by Axel Meyer ...

Genomic analysis reveals squid and cuttlefish evolved in deep oceans, survived mass extinction in refuges, and later rapidly diversified, following a “long fuse” evolutionary pattern.

The East Asian Subtropical Westerly Jet (EASWJ) and the East Asian Summer Monsoon (EASM) are two pivotal components of the ...

There, along the banks of the mighty Allegheny River, in a meeting space in downtown Pittsburgh that literally sits a stone's throw from PNC Park, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates—a truly legendary ...