Whither The Celts? In the 1980s there was a terrific British documentary called simply "The Celts", made because of ongoing fascination by entitled western elites with indigenous people and perhaps…

DNA - inheritance - is more important than the color of your eyes or your hair, it can also influence whether you might develop certain diseases, like cystic fibrosis or hemophilia. Evolution -…

We have tens or hundreds of active 'foreign' genes, according to a new paper, and that may merit a rethink of how we discuss evolution, say the authors. The reason is horizontal gene transfer,…

The origin of life remains a mystery with more questions than answers. How were molecules created? How did they assemble into large structures? Among the conundrums, the "homochirality"…

Most female animals die around the same time they stop reproducing, only humans and two types of whale continue to live for many years after giving birth to their last baby.  But why? …

High up in the high Andes mountains of Argentina, a population has adapted to tolerate the toxic chemical arsenic.  For thousands of years, in some regions of the Andes, people have been exposed…

A partial human skull found in northern Israel  excited paleontologists because it seemed to hold clues about when and where humans and Neanderthals might have interbred. The Manot Cave is…

One day something will outgrow the blue whale – but it won't be another whale. EPA When life on Earth began around 3.6 billion years ago, all organisms were small. Indeed, it took some 2.5 billion…

Caring for offspring is unequal between the sexes in many animal species and a new study suggests evolution is the culprit. Making babies is one of the fundamental conflicts of interest between…

Panspermia Did life evolve on Earth, or did it arrive from space? This article was prompted by articles in the U.K. Daily Mail and Daily Mirror.  There is nothing new in these news reports:…