Like corn kernels in slowly heating oil, the orca sightings began sparse and unpredictable. But at some imperceptible moment, ...

With a new generation of fast and affordable gene sequencers, researchers are better equipped than ever to tackle Earth’s ...

A newly discovered promoter element "start" points to a shared regulatory syntax for controlling transcription initiation in ...

One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they have shown how it could have formed on our planet eons ago. But not everyone ...

Say you want to listen in on a group of super-intelligent aliens whose language you don't understand, and whose spaceship ...

Research into wood warblers shows that gene sharing across species played a key role in shaping their bright feather colors.

Super Mutants are one of the most notable factions in Fallout, and their history also makes them one of the most fascinating.

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

A 430-million-year-old fossil reveals that the first leeches were ocean predators, not bloodsuckers. The discovery radically shifts the timeline of leech evolution by more than 200 million years.

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

Neil deGrasse Tyson explores how Homo sapiens emerged, tracing our evolution, unique traits, and the scientific discoveries that reveal where our species came from and how we became who we are today.