evolution

There's a dangerous mismatch between our biology and the tech-saturated world we inhabit—and it might be killing us. That's the ...

Over the last decade, a growing chorus of scientists has declared that biological sex is not binary. Properly assessing human ...

This week on Facts and Fallacies, a farmer and plant geneticist refutes activist claims that modern agriculture drastically reduces nutrient ...

After years of flogging one chemical scare after another, NPR has abruptly changed its tune, defending Girl Scout cookies against ...

Once fiercely skeptical of "Big Ag," even adamantly progressive media outlets like Mother Jones are beginning to embrace the use ...

The creation-evolution debate has fallen out of the spotlight in recent years, but many Americans still reject Darwin's theory. Should ...

Laughter: Auditory signals were probably more effective in communicating feelings of mutual vulnerability during play ...

Big brains and narrow hips were long blamed for the relative helplessness of human babies at birth. But the energy ...

Have we so badly depleted the world's soil that we only have 60 harvests left? No. New "green" pesticides could ...

Some of the planet's more bizarre creatures have prompted some observers to suggest that evolution, on occasion, is stopped in ...

If you drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes, a growing body of evidence suggests that your genetics may have predisposed you ...

A new gene-editing technique may be safer and more reliable than CRISPR-Cas9, according to a recent study ...

The Gökhem graves provide hard evidence for the ancient community's demise: genetic traces of the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis ...

There's a "toxic 10" group of chemicals lurking in every single food you consume. Listen in to find out what ...

The war in Ukraine could have long-term impacts on global food prices. Can we prevent this dangerous outcome? A Japanese ...

Many people simply refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Is their skepticism justifiable, or are they plagued by biases that ...

If women have a right to abortion, does everyone else have a right to refuse a COVID shot? The "my ...

Coffee is nutritious, according to the latest study. Also, coffee is linked to cancer, new research finds. How do we ...

Dr Kat Arney explores the impact that humans have had on the evolutionary trajectories of the species we share the ...

Geneticist Kat Arney brings you some scientific tails as we explore the genetics of dog breeds and behaviour ...

Politics, geography, and tradition have long focused archaeological attention on the evolution of Homo sapiens in Europe and Africa. Now, ...

Early humans wouldn't be able to survive without glucose from plants ...

The diversity and complexity of life on Earth is astonishing: 8 million or more living species – from algae to ...

An eccentric theory of human seagoing migration—made famous by one of the most insanely suicidal ‘scientific’ experiments ever undertaken—has recently ...

Impossible Burger is a household name best recognized for its successful introduction of a plant-based burger that “bleeds” and has no ...

[A]ncient humans mated with Neanderthals between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago, well before the more recent, and better-known mixing of the two ...

Geneticist Dr Kat Arney brings you exclusive excerpts from her new book Rebel Cell, exploring where cancer came from, where ...