The whites of your eyes are not an accident. They are, scientists now believe, one of the most sophisticated social ...

Characteristic features of plants, such as their active ingredients or flower color, may have developed through very ...

(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have ...

A new study has found that nearly half of the body traits identified across mollusks – a group that includes snails, clams, ...

Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every ...

A new study shows cultural evolution helped humans expand across Earth far faster than genetic change alone could achieve.

My colleague and I have published a new study of cactus flowers which may help explain the conundrum. For more than a century ...

Spiral galaxy NGC 1365 is located about 56 million light-years from us. It is a pretty special galaxy, with two beautiful ...

The cactus on your windowsill may grow slowly, but new research shows that cacti are surprisingly fast at creating new ...