The scientific wonderers at What If summarize the entire history of the world's most famous reptiles in a single, rapid-fire biological lesson.

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A Colorado charter school quickly backed down from teaching creationism to eighth graders, but the incident illustrates that ...

(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have ...

Most people know only two things about the appendix: You don’t need it – and if it bursts, you need surgery fast. That basic ...

My colleague and I have published a new study of cactus flowers which may help explain the conundrum. For more than a century ...

In an unprecedented series of global field experiments launched ten years ago at the Max Planck Institute for Biology ...

In 'Project Hail Mary,' a human and an alien figure out how to cooperate across space. In real life, we can't see that fellow ...

Study of 2,700 species and evolution reveals Universal Thermal Performance Curve, TPC, predicting how all life responds to ...