Many scientists point to cultural evolution, the process by which knowledge, customs and technology spread over time. But ...

"Despite assumptions that masturbation among captive birds like parrots is a result of their often-solitary living, our study ...

Dr. Jess Ghilani is here to explain what this major shift means for the way we search.

If plants had never learned to grow in multiple directions, our world would look very different. No trees, flowers, or other ...

Fish stranded on shore often look helpless, all flops and wriggles. But that clumsy scramble may follow a surprisingly ...

A small fish that lives fast and dies young has given biologists a rare look at one of evolution’s oldest bargains. In the ...

'We really wanted to play the loss of something close to him,' says showrunner Erica Messer.

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have identified a previously unknown protein that may help explain how plants ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

Beneficial mutations happen quite frequently, but the world changes too fast for them to stick.

Scientists have peered inside the skull of a 380-million-year-old Antarctic fish that was closely related to the first animals to walk on land, revealing surprising clues about how life began its move ...

It's Miles Davis' centennial, and fellow musicians discuss how the shapeshifting innovator transformed music over and over ...