"By keeping people biologically younger, we can enjoy a longer health span, a longer period of healthy life where we're active, where we're happy, where we can engage in our hobbies, and play with our grandkids and great grandkids."

Well before plants and animals, there were fungi.

Why do we fall in love with one person over another? The late biological anthropologist Dr. Helen Fisher unpacks the evolutionary roots of romantic love, sex, and attachment.  Using research […]

New research challenges old assumptions about the evolution of the human brain.

It's deceptively tricky to distinguish living systems from non-living systems. Physics may be key to solving the problem.

Biological evolution in humans has slowed. Can AI, culture wars, and modern tech explain why?

The discovery suggests that the "Boring Billion" period of evolution on Earth wasn't so boring after all.

Western societies seem to be getting inflammation achingly wrong.

Looking back on our planet's early history offers a new (and less crazy) meaning for the idea of a "flat Earth."

Evolution doesn’t fix things — it reinvents them. A biologist explains.

The space‑specific neurons in the owl’s specialized auditory brain can do advanced math.

The answer largely centers on crops and cows.

Plants at room temperature show properties we had only seen near absolute zero.

Your chronological age and your biological age aren’t the same thing. This ex-Yale professor explains how to tell the difference.

People say we are better off than ever. Are they right?

Biological age is a better health indicator than the number of years you’ve lived, but it’s tricky to measure.

If aliens are driven mostly by biological imperatives, humanity could be in big trouble if we ever meet technologically advanced beings.

Antibodies can start forming in intestines over 10 years before symptoms arise.

The researchers suggest that their results demonstrate intelligence in silico.

Tracing the origin and development of jaws — and other anatomical features that humans share — sheds some light on how we came to be.  

Was our distant ancestor a biped or not – i.e., human or not human?

Organisms respond in similar ways to similar circumstances.

More humans are being born with a third arm artery, an example of microevolution happening right before our eyes.

Your old-fashioned chronological age is just a number. Your biological age can tell you how healthy you really are.

A gigantic bacterium evolved differently than fundamental models of biology would have predicted. Simply put, these bacteria shouldn't exist.

Fittingly, the skull was found in the Rising Star cave of South Africa, itself located at a site known to UNESCO as the Cradle of Mankind.

We’re a long way from the beginnings of life on Earth. Here’s the key to how we got there. The Universe was already two-thirds of its present age by the time […]

Who should sit atop the iron throne? Let your DNA decide. Here on Earth, we hold one important truth to be self-evident above all others: that all humans are created equal. […]