Creationism assumes that every living form on the earth was created as it is seen now by God. Darwin’s theory of evolution is ...

Survival of the fittest. Nature red in tooth and claw. The common view of natural selection is based solely on the individual: A trait allows an organism to out-compete its rivals and is thus passed ...

The asteroid that struck the Earth 66 million years ago devastated life across the planet, wiping out the dinosaurs and other organisms in a hail of fire and catastrophic climate change. But new ...

The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

Lipstick vines in Taiwan look different from their red-flowered relatives. When scientists dug into the family tree, they ...

Insights gleaned from connected cars are reshaping how radio programming and business decisions are made, says Xperi's.

Astronomers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville may have found the closest evidence yet of a hidden clump of dark ...

When a major breach occurs, firms like Mandiant (now part of Google) or CrowdStrike act as the digital cavalry. They track advanced persistent threats (APTs) with a level of detail that rivals the ...

My friend Oli died at 33 - this is why experts think we're seeing more young deaths from cancer ...

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...

Explore an interactive avian tree of life that reveals how 11,000 bird species are connected through millions of years of ...

Researchers describe a rare type of gene family, known as “universal paralogs”, that provides insight into evolutionary history predating the last universal common ancestor of all life. Detailed ...