A research team led by Dr. Shen Jinhua from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

In 1921, William Bell Riley admonished his opponents that they should “cease from shoveling in dirt on living men,” for the ...

For centuries, Korea has stood at the heart of fermentation culture. Traditional Korean alcohols made from rice, nuruk ...

South Africa has one of the world's richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

A new breakdown of earthworm DNA could help us better understand how evolution works, and it could prove Darwin completely ...

“It may be doubted,” Darwin wrote, “if there are any other animals which have played such an important part in the history of ...

Scientists at RBG Kew and Queen Mary University of London have found evidence that young ash tree populations are evolving ...

Inspired by nature, scientists created a self-powered device that recognizes color just like our eyes, paving the way for ...

Scientists reveal that a key evolutionary theory about rapid change is wrong, caused mainly by statistical noise in the data.

Worms radically reorganized their genomes during their move from sea to land, supporting the theory of punctuated equilibrium ...