Waves of extinction have ripped through life on Earth over and over again during its long history. The non-avian dinosaurs ...

Although we may be loath to admit it, there sometimes appears to be a little magic in science. By magic, I refer to an ...

A new study reveals all five fundamental nucleobases – the molecular “letters” of life – have been detected in samples from ...

A person who continually seeks after pleasure is leading a life that is unsuited to human being - it would be better suited to a life of a grazing animal. In contrast, Eudaimonia, as Aristotle defined ...

Bdelloid rotifers shrug off radiation doses that would obliterate human cells. Here’s how their resilience reveals deep ...

A fungus that evolved at Chernobyl and is now grown on the ISS, Cladosporium sphaerospermum, slightly reduced radiation levels.

Fossils show that howler monkey ancestors, Stirtonia victoriae, were eating leaves 13 million years ago, altering body size ...