As a Ph.D. student, I wanted to understand the evolution of individual differences in fruit fly behavior—the building blocks ...

It is, as Fatsis puts it, “the most comprehensive extant repository of the history of American English.” When Noah Webster published his American Dictionary in 1828, he declared it “not only ...

Long before industry, our ancestors faced toxic metals, including lead. This exposure may have shaped the evolution of human ...

A simple change in species composition can impact the course of evolution: A research team from the University of Bern and the University of British Columbia in Canada shows that the presence of just ...

Scientists have uncovered a 151-million-year-old midge fossil in Australia that challenges long-held views about insect ...

The study explores the evolutionary origins of the lifespan difference between women and men. Across the globe, women generally outlive men, a pattern that has persisted throughout history and in ...

We evolved to band together and to use the power of numbers in social living. Modern internet trolling is an amplified ...

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously ...

WESTMINSTER must “wake up” and accept devolution is “unfinished business” as Scotland has not yet realised its full potential, a ...

One undeniable truth we all face is the uncertainty of life. In a world where change is constant and the future unpredictable ...

The formation of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) was not serendipitous; it was a deliberate dive into the politics of ...

The shadow communities secretary speaks to LGC about LGR, devolution and next year's elections ahead of Conservative party ...