Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through ...

At first glance, this mammal looks like a horse gone terribly wrong. But, in reality, Chalicotherium is far from a botched ...

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...

Near-weightless conditions can mutate genes and alter the physical structures of bacteria and phages, disrupting their normal ...

When scientists sent bacteria-infecting viruses to the International Space Station, the microbes did not behave the same way ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

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The jawbones and vertebrae of a hominin that lived 773,000 years ago have been found in North Africa and could represent a ...

The late Aijaz Ahmad was a voice that could not be ignored. He was a literary critic, poet, and translator, a representative ...

When environments change again and again, evolution surprises—and one population doesn’t reveal a whole species ...

If you are feeling dispirited at work or burned out by the general pressure of life, there is a perfect word for you: "involution." The Mandarin Chinese word for "involution" — neijuan — is now a ...

China now poses a deindustrialisation-level shock to Europe’s economic future. The external impact of Chinese overcapacity, involution, and Beijing’s technological leadership and supply-chain ...