A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding ...

In Tennessee, a century after the Scopes Monkey Trial, it is now a crime for local leaders to vote in favor of sanctuary city ...

Research aiming to answer the great mystery of how consciousness arises is continuing to spark debate, with arguments over ...

What makes humans conscious? Scientists disagree, strongly, as one group of peacemakers discovered the hard way.

When it comes to consciousness, theories are like toothbrushes. Everybody has their own and nobody wants to use anybody ...

Two leading theories of consciousness went head-to-head—and the results may change how neuroscientists study one of the ...

A study recently published in Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology offers new insight into a long-standing puzzle in human ...

When cosmologists used different ways to measure the value of sigma 8, a number that denotes how clumpy the universe is, they came up with different estimates. This lack of agreement has come to be ...

Professor Emily Jane McTavish and colleagues at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have mapped the evolution of every known bird ...

Chimpanzees are often cast as a mirror to our darkest tendencies, embodying violence, territoriality and power struggles. In ...

Max Telford's new book, The Tree of Life, is a millennia-spanning exploration of the history – and future – of evolutionary ...

The prebiotic Earth was a harsh and unstable environment, characterized by intense heat, active volcanoes and little ...