Glioblastoma is the most common form of brain cancer in adults, and its consequences are usually quick and fatal. After ...

New fossils link a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a species that mixed climbing skills with its own style of bipedal walking. The evidence shows that multiple early ...

Microbial communities, like those in the human gut, act as powerful engines that drive the evolution and spread of ...

Bacteria are among the most diverse and ancient forms of life on Earth. Yet, much of what is known about them comes from a ...

In a study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, scientists show that the SAMD9 and SAMD9L genes, key players in ...

Scientists have discovered a 151-million-year-old fossil fly in Australia that challenges ideas about insect evolution. Named ...

A strange, contagious cancer is threatening Tasmanian devils, but researchers’ fight is fueling breakthroughs in science, ...

Researchers at Stockholm University have uncovered surprising insights into a large, previously unstudied group of bacteria, ...

A team from the Institute of Integrative Cell Biology and Physiology at the University of Münster has now shown that the ...

The captivity tale of Cervantes, the author of "Don Quixote," involves a third-party punishment dilemma.

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

University of California San Diego researchers have discovered the enzyme responsible for chromothripsis, a process in which a single chromosome is shattered into pieces and rearranged in a scrambled ...