From friendship in a world of chatbots to what it means to be alive, this month’s new popular science books are asking some ...

A vast stretch of islands across the South Pacific holds one of the oldest human stories on Earth. For tens of thousands of ...

Scotland’s island wrens are quietly breaking the rules of evolution, growing in ways that have stunned researchers and raised ...

So many of life's most pivotal decisions come down to one question: Should you listen to your logic or your emotions? Popular ...

A 150-million-year-old fossil unearthed in Fujian province has revealed what researchers say is the smallest known ...

Salvinia molesta can double its biomass in 36 hours. It spreads across ponds, lakes and slow-moving waterways in a smothering ...

The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by palaeontologists at the University ...

Evolution is always happening — so why can't we see it? A biologist explains the timescale problem, election pressure, and ...

Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an ...

As I picked up the coins, I noticed I was using different movements to gather everything, and those movements seemed to ...

A study of chimps, gorillas and other great apes, including human children, sheds light on how laughter has evolved.