New Curtin University research has revealed that a massive meteorite struck northwestern Scotland about 200 million years ...

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief appointed a British human rights activist on Tuesday to carry out a strategic ...

While the topic of this book might seem a little depressing, it is really a powerful wake-up call to all of us, based on the ...

Wildflowers growing on land previously used for buildings and factories can accumulate lead, arsenic and other metal contaminants from the soil, which are consumed by pollinators as they feed, a new ...

an astrophysicist introduced the Silurian Hypothesis, the idea that an advanced civilization may have existed on Earth before humans.

Discoveries in Human evolution never cease to be exciting and the latest talk of the anthropology fraternity is the discovery of a new human species in China. Dating back almost 300,000 years ago, the ...

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A fungus on the bones allows the finders to transform genetically — becoming part human and part plant — and to perceive the world through one another’s eyes. Called the Empathics ...

Parasite evolution refers to the heritable genetic changes that a parasite accumulates during its life time, which can arise from adaptations in response to environmental changes or the immune ...

The results, published this week in Nature magazine by an international team of 123 researchers, help deepen people's understanding of human evolution and protect endangered ape populations.

Radiation and Rapid Evolution | The Wolves of Chernobyl Reveal Human Potential Scientists discovered something impossible in Chernobyl's radioactive ruins - life is thriving where nothing should ...