Many butterflies develop wing patterns that mimic other species to protect themselves from predators. While growing complex ...

Ella Al-Shamahi is the host of “Human,” premiering on PBS this month. As an 18-year-old Muslim missionary, I enrolled at University College London intent on destroying the theory of evolution. Today, ...

Hamilton's rule, introduced in the 1960s, says that altruism—helping others at your own expense—can evolve when the benefits to others, multiplied by how closely related they are to you, outweigh the ...

Psychological science is really just our best shot at making sense of how people think, feel, and act. It’s rooted in old philosophy but runs today on experiments, observation, and data. Back in the ...

More than 700,000 GCSE physics students could be without a specialist teacher, a report has warned. The Institute of Physics (IOP) has called for urgent action to tackle the shortage in physics ...

The number of girls choosing to take a GCSE in computer science fell this year, breaking a consistent growth streak. In 2025, the number of girls taking computing at GCSE level dropped to 20,708, down ...

The number of pupils receiving top grades in their GCSE's in Wales has risen slightly this year, according to an overview of 2025 results. Thousands of pupils across the country have received their ...

When Charles Darwin first proposed how evolution works in 1859, it seemed plausible. Tiny changes stack up over time, eventually leading a species to become something entirely different. Aside from ...

A new study has shown that person-to-person variation in antibody immunity plays a key role in shaping which influenza (flu) strains dominate in a population. The work, published today as a Reviewed ...

A new study from the University of Michigan suggests that organisms could get better at evolving over time. Researchers used a computer program to simulate organisms switching between beneficial and ...

Third grade teacher Tracey Broughton teaches students at Perry Creek Elementary School in Sioux City. Iowa’s current draft of its K-12 science standards, which include changing the word “evolution” to ...