In A Nutshell Scientists have identified a new spider species in Colombia named Pikelinia floydmuraria, after Pink Floyd and ...

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Learn more about new research that analyzed 16,000 ancient genomes and discovered that natural selection hasn’t slowed down.

Over the past 10,000 years, evolution in West Eurasia has been selecting for light skin, red hair and resistance to HIV and ...

Francis Collins explains why many of history’s greatest scientists believed faith and science could work together.

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...

A common element in “Star Trek” and other science fiction is their depiction of humanoid alien species. If life exists ...

A rare fossil discovery is shedding light on the “missing years” of early sponge evolution. Scientists found a ...

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...

For the first time, new theoretical models, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, connect the magnetism at the surface of ...

Explore how the thalidomide tragedy and metformin delay shaped the modern FDA and European drug approval processes and the ...