Evolution might allow for multiple optimal solutions, depending on the constraints and conditions under which an organism ...

Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

Scientists have traced the evolutionary origin of humans' outer ears to the gills of ancient fish through a series of ...

Some amino acids can be built in two ways that mirror each other, like a pair of right and left hands. Life on Earth uses the ...

Scientists have discovered massive structures deep inside Earth, beneath Africa and the Pacific Ocean. These structures are ...

An international research team has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the Zagros Mountains in the Kurdistan region of Iraq on how much the surface of the Earth has bent over the last ...

Scientists found that fruit fly embryos can develop through multiple genetic paths, not just one. This challenges traditional ideas.

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the WASP-132 system, finding two new planets that defy previous ...

and the geologist who ten years ago was embarrassed by the shortness of the time allowed to him for the evolution of the earth's crust is now still more embarrassed by the superabundance with ...

“Evolution isn't just a story about where we came from. It's an epic at the center of life itself.”– Kenneth R. Miller, Biologist, Brown University If you are reading this sentence, you’re ...