For years, evolutionary psychologists and biologists have investigated the idea that the shape of a man’s face can predict his behavior. A specific measurement known as the facial width-to-height ...

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

Nandkumar M. Kamat 14, Valentine’s Day, often arrives wrapped in poetry, music, and symbolism; yet, the experience it celebrates—falling in love—is also one of the most intensively ...

To help you explore these facets of your own psyche, I’ve developed a science-inspired assessment, The Anti-Hero Test. You can take it here to discover which iconic fictional antagonist mirrors your ...

Climate change is accelerating the arrival of warmer spring temperatures, and this phenomenon is affecting the conservation ...

Termites reveal a startling consequence of long-term monogamy – the resulting lack of competition between the reproductive sperm of rival males led to the loss of tails in their sperm. This involved ...

A new study by researchers at Kiel University and MPI-EvolBio describes how more efficient protein production drives the ...

Elon Musk believes Mars can be settled by 2050, but a Rice University professor's new book reveals the many biological ...

Humans aren't the only species that can pretend, a study shows. Scientists offered a bonobo imaginary juice and grapes in a ...

Prototaxites taiti’ was not a fungus but an extinct eukaryotic lineage, a study reveals, resolving a mystery that as perplexed experts for centuries.

Colin Talbot looks to evolutiopary biology to argue that it is in our nature to co-operate - and that each of us is ourselves a co-op ...

Science often presents itself as the ultimate arbiter of truth, a fortress of facts with everything meticulously figured out.