Study results advance understanding of how human cells evolved and could help point to new solutions for patients with rare genetic diseases.

Humans change the urban landscape with religious, cultural and political activities, which in turn can influence the ...

Dr Svenson comes to Oxford University from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History (Ohio, USA), where he was curator of Invertebrate Zoology and, since 2022, chief science officer.

The downstream consequences of religion, politics and war can have far-reaching effects on the environment and on the ...

An analysis of mpox virus genomes from individuals infected between 2018 and 2023 has provided insights into how the virus ...

Researchers Trace Evolutionary Trajectory of Starfish's Unique Symmetry Through a 500 Million-Year-Old Fossil The star shape ...

Human daily life evolved slowly for centuries, but now it shifts rapidly and our survival depends on maintaining balance.

A 500-million-year-old fossil from Morocco, discovered by Natural History Museum scientists, is offering extraordinary new ...

We think of tears as an overflow of emotion, but an evolutionary lens shows they’re a rational form of social signalling ...

A 500-million-year-old fossil from Morocco is helping scientists to answer the evolutionary mystery of how starfish evolved ...

The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also ...

S ince they were first deployed almost 100 years ago, antibiotics – originally discovered in soil – have saved millions of ...