biological evolution
17/02/2020 - 13:35
In fact, you may have a trace of this unknown archaic human as well. “Our study shows that some of this ancestry is also present in non-... →
01/08/2019 - 12:12
The reason this news registered among scientists is that methane is often a sign of life; although the gas can be produced by various... →
09/07/2019 - 12:22
Since the birth of the world’s first “test tube baby” in 1978, around eight million people have been born by IVF. And the number may... →
01/06/2019 - 12:14
That we have a conscience at all relates to how evolution has shaped our neurobiology for social living. Thus, we judge what is right or... →
24/05/2019 - 14:15
Black cloak. Scythe. Skeletal grin. The Grim Reaper is the classic visage of death in Western society, but it's far from the only one.... →
25/08/2018 - 13:21
My friend’s mother gave me antihistamines and loaded me into her van. We set out for the county hospital, my dread growing as we drove. I... →
22/08/2018 - 12:48
Church and his eclectic lab have pushed bioengineering in multiple directions, showing how it can be used to resurrect mammoths, eradicate... →
07/08/2018 - 12:56
This duality is also a puzzle to ourselves, at the heart of cosmologies, theologies and tragedies, the motor of moral codes and the tension... →
20/02/2018 - 12:26
Human nutrition is of increasing importance to science. Of course, centuries of scientific research have been devoted to ensuring that... →
05/10/2017 - 12:10
Grey considers aging an engineering problem. The human body is a machine, he told me in the following interview, and like any machine, it... →
08/09/2017 - 11:36
What’s replicated isn’t matter (made of atoms) but information (made of bits) specifying how the atoms are arranged. When a bacterium makes... →
11/08/2017 - 12:37
In Planet of the Apes, Pierre Boulle’s 1963 novel upon which the films are based, space traveler Ulysse Mérou is stranded on a... →