A new way of analysing fossils has revealed more about animals and environments of ancient times, when humans were evolving.

Termites did not evolve complex societies by adding new genetic features. Instead, scientists found that they became more ...

Longevity enthusiasts tell stories of extreme biohacking, post-cryopreservation polyamory and penis injections. Are they onto something?

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

If you’re wondering what micro-infusion actually is, we break it down in more detail below. But in short, micro-infusion is a ...

After the asteroid smashed into Earth around 66 million years ago, it didn't take life that long to rebound, a new study ...

Researchers are continually looking for new ways to hack the cellular machinery of microbes like yeast and bacteria to make products that are useful for humans and society. In a new proof-of-concept ...

Cancer doesn’t evolve by pure chaos. Scientists have developed a powerful new method that reveals the hidden rules guiding how cancer cells gain and lose whole chromosomes—massive genetic shifts that ...

The researchers took a “safety-first” approach. They deliberately excluded all viruses that infect humans or animals from the ...

From TVs and smartwatches to rapidly emerging VR and AR devices, micro-LEDs are a next-generation display technology in which each LED—smaller than the thickness of a human hair—emits light on its own ...

In a new study, scientists analyzed how a biological battle played out between a strain of E. coli and a T7 bacteriophage, ...