A novel suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution.

says the study adds to the growing body of evidence challenging the prevailing view of evolution that the only way that adaptations emerge is through gradual natural selection of randomly arising ...

They have big brains, long childhoods and sociable, curious minds. So why haven’t birds developed complex culture?

Lamarck's theory of acquired characteristics revisited through epigenetics in a groundbreaking study on cold-adapted rice ...

A middle school science teacher redesigned her life science curriculum as interconnected units anchored in real-world ...

Researchers have sequenced the genome of a unique species of jellyfish with 28 eyes to help us understand the wild evolution ...

Scientists are expressing concerns about male reproductive health due to the Y chromosome's genetic material loss, ...

History helps us make sense of the here and now by providing context and perspective. And sometimes history provides us with ...

Two X chromosomes mean girl, and an X paired with a Y means boy. For the last 300 million years, this system has worked very ...

Aristotle praised the political organization of ant colonies while ancient Chinese Daoists appreciated ants as illustrative ...

Artificial intelligence has transformed how we work, communicate, and solve problems. From language models that write essays ...