The question of what non-flying dinosaurs were doing with their feathered wings – and why they originally evolved in the ...

The biggest jump in body size among our ancestors happened around 2–2.5 million years ago, with the appearance of Homo ...

An international team of researchers have discovered a remarkable new spider species in the rainforest of north Queensland ...

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When Jasmin Imran Alsous peered down her microscope lens, she expected to see chaos — a mishmash of tangled cells. She was ...

In 2018 I released Timelapse of the Entire Universe, an experimental video that compressed all of time into a 10 minute scale ...

What if intelligence doesn’t require a brain? Biologist Michael Levin argues that intelligence is not confined to neurons, ...

Believe it or not (I certainly have a hard time believing it!), it has been three decades since the publication of Carl Sagan’s famous essay “The Fine Art of Baloney Detection,” incorporated as ...

Astronomers have long wondered whether life on Earth might have had origins somewhere else in the cosmos. The idea that the key ingredients for life, or even simple organisms, might be carried through ...

Billionare venture capitalist and artificial intelligence (AI) evangelist Marc Andreessen recently claimed that ...

Many medicines begin life with one purpose and end up proving useful for a completely different reason. Few areas show this ...