In 1878, Bergson left the Lycée Condorcet and won entry to the École Normale Supérieure, the most exclusive university in ...

Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion of the genomic era shows that gene loss and simplification is a much more ...

Religious dogma clashed with early science, but fossils and discoveries reshaped humanity’s understanding of Earth’s history.

The Wollemi Pine’s bark looks like bubbling chocolate—but its real secret? It’s a 200-million-year-old survivor from the age ...

Short snouts and a flat profile - within a span of 100 years, humans have significantly changed the shape of the skulls of ...

Bird Mimicry Bird that mimic other birds are the cover artists of the bird world, borrowing sounds and tunes from other birds to use as their own. Some mimicry bird species—mockingbirds, thrashers and ...

As the global population continues to grow, innovative solutions are needed to ensure food security. With limited land and ...

In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone ...

Apparently, a recent mass extinction event in South America never actually happened. For four decades, it was believed that a […] ...

After weeks of watching young tendrils slowly corkscrew their way toward the sun, Charles Darwin invented a system for making ...