Darwin knew that some mechanism had to govern how our physical features and behavioral traits have evolved over centuries, passing from a parent to their offspring with natural selection favoring…

It's two inches long, is shaped like a phallus and is commonly associated with wood.   A middle school joke?  No, it's a new species of stinkhorn mushroom discovered on the African island…

A team of researchershas discovered a biological marker for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of blindness in older adults.  The marker, a receptor known as…

KUALA LUMPUR, June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Sumitomo Heavy Industries Marine Engineering (SHI-ME) Co., Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Heavy Industries Ltd., has successfully delivered the…

Dr Jennifer Loveland-Curtze and a team of scientists from Pennsylvania State University say that a  bacterium trapped more than a mile under under glacial ice in Greenland for over 120,000 years…

Almost 140 years ago, Charles Darwin formalized what many people already believed - mate selection isn't pure chance;  it's a deliberate process that  involves numerous factors, including…

When you go to New York City, to Central Park, to the American Museum of Natural History, to the Hayden Planetarium, to a seminar hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson, on the entire cosmos, you might think…

The Silent Ape : On The Origins Of Language This article is a highly speculative account of how our distant ancestors evolved the capacity for speech, together with the evolved capacities that would…

The Brightest Candles #2The brightest candles are the people whose light remains long after they are gone. Imagine all the peopleliving life in peaceyou may say I'm a dreamerbut I'm not the only oneI…

PARIS, June 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Paris Air Show -- The Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) team developing the U.S. Air Force's Global Positioning System (GPS) III program has entered the Critical Design…