Paleontology, the branch of science concerned with fossil animals and plants, is just one of many subjects Nicholson’s ...

A new theory suggests windows of opportunity, not a series of improbable events may have helped humans gain a foothold in the ...

A study published in The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories found that belief in pseudoscience often stems from a lack of ...

In a nutshell New research challenges the long-held belief that human evolution required improbable “lucky breaks,” ...

A new book explores how one biologist’s work at the North and South Poles changed the way he sees the world and our place in ...

It measures 130 to 300 feet across, a pebble compared to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, which is estimated to have been six to nine miles in length. On the other hand, on Feb. 15, 2013, an ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

How did Earth transform from a hostile, acidic ocean world to one that nurtured life? Scientists at Yale and in Singapore ...

Five years ago, NASA provided an updated version of the Pale Blue Dot. JPL engineer Kevin M Gill reprocessed the image with modern tools but following the original approach, even receiving inputs from ...

Scientists found that evolution itself can evolve. Organisms exposed to changing environments develop a better ability to ...