Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

Like other species, we are the products of millions of years of adaptation. Now we're taking matters into our own hands.

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

CHARLOTTE, NC / ACCESS Newswire / July 18, 2025 / As the world accelerates toward a hyper-connected, AI-powered future, author and futurist Himanshu Kalkar offers a provocative new perspective in his ...

Though she works thousands of miles from home, Arizona State University research scientist Kaye Reed is used to 110-degree heat. For days at a time, Reed and her colleagues walk through Ethiopia's ...

Volcanic eruptions are excellent timekeepers because they happen very quickly, geologically speaking. As hot magma erupts, it cools and solidifies into volcanic ash particles and pumice rocks. Pumice ...

Cat Bohannon's "Eve" is vaguely intimidating. Fine, more than a little intimidating. It's more than 600 pages, promising to cover 200 million years of human evolution. The young adult adaptation, just ...

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

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