Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

Citizen science data from the popular platform iNaturalist has helped uncover the evolution of parental guarding behavior in ...

All living great apes (orangutans, bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, and humans) laugh. However, it’s been unclear how laughter ...

A major research study is challenging one of evolution’s most influential ideas: that most genetic changes that become permanent are essentially neutral. Researchers at the University of Michigan ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain ...

New evidence published today in the journal Science upends decades of evolutionary theory about when animals first walked on ...

As global warming accelerates, extreme heat waves are causing widespread death of tropical reef corals. Most corals rely on tiny algae cells living within their tissues that photosynthesize and ...