The whole story of "Project Hail Mary" revolves around an alien microbe known as Astrophage that's dimming the sun. Here's everything you need to know about it.

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This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Humans don’t have a defined mating season like deer or wolves. Here’s how evolution rewired ...

Growing research – including ancient DNA technology – is changing the picture of human evolution and how our ancestors interacted with other human-like creatures. If the simplest explanation is often ...

The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we dive into fascinating ideas from around the universe. You can sign up for Lost in Space-Time here. Modern physics ...

I don’t know how likely extraterrestrial life might be. But no matter what, the truth of Christianity will stand. This is how strange our times are: Last week, two United States presidents engaged the ...

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The human genome is a complex record of migration, evolution, and ancestry written over thousands of millennia. Now, new genomic research by members of Sarah Tishkoff’s lab at the University of ...

Researchers propose migration and social behaviors may explain this pattern in early human-Neanderthal interactions Modern humans of European and Asian ancestry still carry up to 2% Neanderthal DNA ...

Noise pollution is affecting bird behavior across the globe, disrupting everything from courtship songs to the ability to find food and avoid predators, a large-scale new analysis showed on Wednesday.

The findings may reveal new insights into early human mating preferences Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty A new study suggests Neanderthal males mated with human females more often than the reverse ...