"Why does aging happen in the first place?"A hypothesis is presented that death and aging are advantageous traits selected during the process of evolution.This book organizes life science from the ...

Diagnostics and drug development startup Arboretum LifeSciences launched with $30 million in financing. Its executives say ...

At some point in evolutionary history, whales and dolphins passed a threshold their bodies could never recover from.

A magnificent two-volume biography of Charles Darwin has been shortened into a marvel of economy.

Tiny relatives of our cellular ancestors reshape long protrusions within minutes and pull themselves across surfaces using ancient actin machinery.

I am reading through David C. Krakauer's 'The Complex World'.Through my reading so far, I have begun to see what it is that ...

Scientists accidentally discovered a microscopic organism with a genetic code that breaks a rule researchers thought was ...

Heureka, a major science centre in Vantaa in the Helsinki metropolitan area, has opened a new Evolution of Dinosaurs ...

It may be time for the animal kingdom to reset its clock. According to a new study by an international group of researchers, ...

Meet Westlothiana lizziae, also known as “Lizzie,” a tiny Scottish fossil that spent decades holding the crown as one of the oldest known reptiles. At roughly 345 million years old, Lizzie seemed to ...

Learn how new research challenges long-held assumptions about animal evolution and suggests that the earliest animals may ...

New research suggests animals could have evolved as early as 800 to 700 million years ago, roughly 200 million years earlier than some previous estimates. If so, the first animals may have lived ...