The Cambrian Explosion is a landmark moment in the history of life on Earth when many of the major groups of animals first ...

The venture, privately funded to start, is now run by the University of Arizona. And today, scientists there are quietly ...

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The Scopes Monkey Trial and the evolution of fundamentalism A staged legal proceeding in a small town became the catalyst for ...

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Researchers have described proteins that they say are among the most ancient ever sequenced. Two teams, which analysed ...

Chicago’s new National Public Housing Museum and Roosevelt Square mixed-use apartments show glimmers of architectural success.

In Zambia, a peculiar trend has swept through a group of chimpanzees: blades of grass, stylishly dangling from ears and their ...

A new study argues that religion, politics and war affect how animals and plants in cities evolve, and the confluence of ...

In the 1830s Charles Darwin visited the Galapagos islands in the Pacific Ocean. He studied the unique animals living on the islands. Darwin's trip led him to the theory of evolution. In today's ...