Compared to previous theories, the current research emphasizes the complexity of the biological and chemical processes that brought about life.

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...

Researchers summarize key insights from the world’s first comprehensive investigation into how a pandemic started.

The idea that six generations are battling it out in today's workplace makes for compelling headlines, but how much of it is actually true?

The compounds have exploded in popularity, but big questions about safety and effectiveness are still unresolved.

Women and children moving through Europe became victims of mass violence.

Even Charles Darwin was puzzled by the evolution of the vertebrate eye. New research suggests that it traces back to a cyclopean invertebrate with a single eye atop the head.

We estimate income and taxes for the wealthiest group of US households by matching Forbes 400 data to the individual, business, estate, and gift tax returns of the corresponding group in 2010–2020. In ...

New research challenges the one-level view of evolution, showing natural selection works on individuals and groups together.