This argument aligns with the so-called hard problem of consciousness, which asks why subjective experience exists at all. The author maintains that increasing computational complexity does not ...

India, Feb. 12 -- On 12th February 1809 in Shrewsbury, England, a boy was born who would later be responsible for how humans ...

New research challenges the one-level view of evolution, showing natural selection works on individuals and groups together.

Another theory held that the forces between two particles falls off exponentially in direct relationship to the distance between two particles and that the factor by which it drops is not dependent on ...

India, Feb. 21 -- Every rebellion imagines itself as the subject of history: we, the people, are acting; we are choosing; we are remaking the world. But look more carefully, and a disturbing ...

In a new study, published in Cell, researchers describe a newfound mechanism for creating proteins in a giant DNA virus, comparable to a mechanism in eukaryotic cells. The finding challenges the dogma ...

Excerpted with permission from the publisher The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Revised Edition, 2026), Siddhartha Mukherjee, published by Fourth Estate, HarperCollins India.

For decades, biology textbooks have drawn a firm line: viruses are not alive. They lack the machinery to reproduce on their own, they carry no metabolism, and they depend entirely on host cells to ...

Our planet was once a harsh, alien, icy world. Yet this deep freeze may have shaped you, me and all life on Earth ...

Even when the weather blows them off course, tagging has shown that many butterflies can get back on track and keep heading south. After migrating, they overwinter in cool, moist places, resting to ...

Some single-celled organisms are known to transition to multicellularity during their lifetimes, usually either by cloning themselves or when many similar cells come together to form a larger ...

Depending on others for something you need may feel like a risky proposition—and perhaps a human one. It is actually a ...