Groundbreaking research shows that as men age, harmful genetic mutations in sperm become more common—not just from random ...

Lead exposure may have spelled evolutionary success for humans—and extinction for our ancient cousins—but other scientists ...

Lead exposure remains a public health issue around the world, even after decades of remediation efforts. According to the ...

A remarkable 151-million-year-old fly fossil found in China is changing our view of insect evolution. This ancient insect, ...

An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

I'm a Lego expert and I love the Lego Ideas Evolution of STEM set. Could it be the best science-themed set ever, despite some ...

One hundred years ago, a substitute teacher in Dayton, Tenn., was charged with the crime of teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. His name was John Scopes. At the time, ...

The $148,000 award supports collaborative research and community outreach on Pennsylvania’s Devonian fossil record.

Hamilton's rule, introduced in the 1960s, says that altruism—helping others at your own expense—can evolve when the benefits to others, multiplied by how closely related they are to you, outweigh the ...

This week, researchers reported the discovery of four Late Bronze Age stone megastructures likely used for trapping herds of ...

A paradigm shift is coming as evidence emerges that we are more than our brains.