The researchers described the scene in a recent publication, calling it “an extraordinary colonial spider community.” The ...

Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy ...

Structural heart innovation demands thinner, stronger materials and scalable manufacturing. Read how material expertise and customization are overcoming industry challenges for better patient outcomes ...

When males are forced to compete for females, new species form more rapidly. This has been shown in a new study where the ...

Complex life may have started its rise in Earth’s oxygen-free oceans nearly a billion years earlier than anyone imagined.

Scientists found that adult bristleworm eyes grow continuously thanks to a rim of neural stem cells similar to those in ...

When we think of coral reefs, we picture bright fish, clear water and colourful corals. But reefs have also shaped the planet ...

A cell is fundamentally a container—a vessel that encapsulates life at the most basic level. Many biologists believe ...

A Michigan prosecutor is calling it “evil personified.” Authorities charged a woman and her husband with murder in the death ...

New experiments show that biomolecules the form the basis of all life were present in the Earth's atmosphere before the first ...

Bears look like textbook mammals, but hidden in their evolutionary history are two dramatic departures from the standard ...