Living cells pay a hidden energy price not just to run chemical reactions, but to keep them on track and block all the ...

The oldest fossilised remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that ...

The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright movement. It helps explain how human ancestors left life on all fours ...

Archaeologists found traces of well-known plant poisons on Stone Age quartz arrowheads in a prehistoric South African rock ...

While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.

In its preliminary data release, taken from just seven nights of observations, the powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory has ...

Biologists are closing in on a puzzle that seems to turn classic evolutionary logic inside out, yet may be so common that it ...

One of the main questions in exoplanet science concerns M dwarfs (red dwarfs) and the habitability of exoplanets that orbit ...

This important study introduces a new biology-informed strategy for deep learning models aiming to predict mutational effects in antibody sequences. It provides solid evidence that separating ...

A study suggests menopause gives an evolutionary advantage to some whales. The findings could offer clues about menopause in ...

Current provost of Johns Hopkins University, who has an asteroid named for him, will lead the prestigious Pasadena ...

When stripped of its myths, sensible love is not passionless, painless or passive. In fact, it is an emotionally intelligent ...