“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

A new scientific theory counters the 'hard steps' theory by suggesting that the emergence of Homo sapiens and similar ...

A recent study presents a new way to understand life by describing it as a cascade of machines producing machines, spanning ...

On Darwin Day, 12 February 2025, the Darwin Online project at the National University of Singapore (NUS) launches the largest ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

Third grade teacher Tracey Broughton teaches students at Perry Creek Elementary School in Sioux City. Iowa’s current draft of its K-12 science standards, which include changing the word ...

Beauty follows objective patterns in nature, guided by evolution and mathematics. The Fibonacci sequence and Golden Ratio ...

Scientists often use sophisticated technology, so an AI tool designed to help them begin new investigations may see broad ...

for violating a recently enacted state law that forbade the state’s educators “to teach any theory that denies ... the improved treatment of evolution in state science standards, which specify ...

New research shows that fluctuating environmental conditions helped chemical mixtures self-organize and evolve in structured ...