As the days become warmer, you may notice some tiny little black specks among the top of melting snow piles. But what looks ...
Beneath our feet, Oregon is riddled with a labyrinth of natural tunnels, lava tubes and underground chambers, all shaped by fire and time and home to several species of bats. Central Oregon’s dramatic ...
Biologists have debated the reason why Homo sapiens evolved a prominent lower jaw, but this unique feature may actually be a ...
A new study explains why humans have chins while other primates do not. Researchers found that the chin likely formed as a ...
Another suggestion is that tails disappeared from the earliest apes due to a genetic mistake. When a single short stretch of DNA found in humans and other apes, but not in other primates, was added to ...
A new study by Silent Spring Institute shows that hair extensions contain more harmful chemicals than experts previously ...
In the book "What We Inherit," experts unpack long-standing myths about genes and how those myths could shape public opinion around emerging embryo-selection technologies.
The bony facial protrusion might be an evolutionary byproduct that resulted from changes to other parts of the skull, according to a new study ...
The modern poison has become less a medieval cliché than a geopolitical signature flourish.
Complex 3D structures of cells called organoids could be used to test treatments for spinal-cord damage that can lead to ...
Triceratops and similar horned dinosaurs had unusually large nasal cavities compared to most animals. Researchers, including those from the University of Tokyo, used CT scans of fossilized Triceratops ...