Wired for Story, Dreamland, Homo Mysterious, and Vagina
Wired for Story, Dreamland, Homo Mysterious, and Vagina
Used ground coffee and other café food waste could one day be converted into plastics, detergents and other products.
A Bill of Rights amendment reaffirming the right to pray could have negative consequences for the teaching of evolution.
The root system of a tree species is genetically different than the leaves of that individual, potentially modifying scientists’ understanding of evolution.
Fossils from northern Kenya point to a new human species that lived in Africa nearly 2 million years ago.
As many as 1,000 different non-native organisms used in the classroom are being released into the wild by school teachers.
At age 16, Alexandra Sourakov has her first scientific publication, on the foraging behavior of butterflies.
Evolving the ability to run may also have made our ancestors smarter, suggesting that exercise can be healthy for the brain as well as the body.
Two whole genome duplications boosted the complexity of the ancestor of all vertebrates, but also introduced potential for disease.
Genomic analyses reveal that the polar bear evolved between 4 and 5 million years ago, far earlier than previous studies had estimated.