Biology

No, but the direction of our hair whorls could teach us about human development

During the pandemic, researcher Daniela Rößler couldn't go out, so she started looking around her for her next research project. Then she found a really big one, and it had been right in front of her all along.

Social wasps can hold their liquor

Lyudmila Trut devoted her life to studying the process of domestication by selectively breeding friendly foxes

Trump’s anti-immigrant good-gene-bad-gene screeds are nothing but factless eugenics for a new era

Half a century after its discovery, this iconic fossil remains central to our understanding of human origins

Anti-immigrant rhetoric in the U.S. comes straight out of the playbook of eugenics, deeply dishonest scientism that falsely claims that criminality, poverty and a host of other ills are all genetically inherited

New work listens in on bird dreams

Fossil and gene discoveries paint an ever-more-intertwined history of humans combining with vanished species like Neandertals

Bacteria can degrade particularly tough PFAS varieties

Two injured sea creatures merged to form a “Franken-jelly”

In a dense Republic of Congo rainforest, scientists have mapped a network of strangely open clearings where wild beasts go to eat and hang out