In this age of science, many people see supernatural forces as illusions rooted in wishful thinking. But love remains a profound exception to humanity’s trend toward rationality. People are used to ...

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

A fungus that infects salamanders contains multiple copies of the same "jumping genes", scientists have discovered. Jumping genes, called transposons, can "copy and paste" themselves and impact the ...

A research team has identified the most widespread genetic contribution by Denisovans to date. The study reveals that the genetic variant observed, which affects zinc regulation, could have signified ...

Research has shown that men tend to have better navigational skills than women, but a new study shows it may be due to a different reason than some people may think. Men may be better at directions ...

A study of celibacy among monks in Tibetan Buddhist monasteries has shed light on the “surprising” evolutionary advantages of the practice. With reproduction at the heart of the evolution of living ...

Researchers extracted DNA from the remains of people buried in the East Smithfield plague pits, which were used for mass burials in 1348 and 1349. (Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA)) When the ...

Conjugates between polyamines and hydroxycinnamic acids are found on the pollen surface of all higher plants, both mono- and dicots. But we don’t know why they are there. Delporte et al. (2018) have ...

Geographical distribution of the substitution identified in the SLC30A9 gene in current human populations and possible scenarios of Denisovan introgression. SLC30A9 ancestral corresponds to the ...