When closely related species mate, their offspring sometimes survive but cannot reproduce. This pattern often affects males ...

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir is one of today's best science fiction books. While much of the science and math is great, it falls a bit when it comes to evolution.

Almost everyone carries microscopic mites on their skin. They live inside pores and hair follicles, feeding on skin oils and ...

A Harvard physicist who once accepted evolution without question says a surprising encounter with faith forced him to rethink ...

When an email from Northwestern University landed in my inbox, I thought I was reading a very early April Fools joke, or maybe something from The Onion. “I thought it was a joke, too,” ...

Every second, hundreds to thousands of molecules move through thousands of nuclear pores in each of your cells. A new high-definition view reveals the machine in action.

Discover why tiny Amazon insects are so vulnerable to heat and what their decline could mean for forests, wildlife, and people.

Take a mama salmon, for example. It lays thousands of eggs at a time which the males fertilize thoroughly. The salmon packs each egg with more yolk compared to an urchin, that means more proteins, ...

Evolution is perhaps the most extraordinary story ever told—a tale spanning billions of years that connects every living thing on Earth through an intricate ...

Microbes that flourish in boiling hydrothermal vents, bone-dry desert sediments, and radiation-blasted Antarctic rock are forcing scientists to rethink where life can and cannot exist. These ...

In Michigan Tech's biology teaching lab, undergraduate students research potential cancer cures with help from the humble worm.

The biodiversity of the native plants and animals that live in the Hawaiian islands is breath-taking. On the northern and eastern sides of the islands, where the trade winds drop their moisture on ...