Scientists have ranked all known flowering plants and found that more than 20% of their evolutionary history is now at risk ...

The bird retina is one of the most energetically expensive tissues in the animal kingdom, yet it doesn’t use the energy ...

The world's main source of vanilla, smallest waterlily and many magnolia species could disappear entirely, according to ...

Dr Adrian Woolfson is pioneering technologies which he says will lead to a ‘Second Genesis’, where humans can create life like God. He meets ...

Attenborough began hosting and producing nature documentaries for the BBC in the 1950s. He spoke to Terry Gross in 1995 about about traveling the world to film Life on Earth.

Only about 20% of flowering plants had formal IUCN Red List assessments at the time of the study.

When we think of the universal feminine, there is no one more elemental than Mother Nature. In ancient Greece, the goddess ...

The first visible steps of reconstruction are underway at the site of the deadliest act of antisemitic violence in U.S.

Scientists retrieved proteins from six teeth unearthed in China that reveal a potential link between Homo erectus and later ...

Researchers at the Technion have discovered how changes in genetic regulatory sequences can lead to alterations in the form and structure of animals—even when genetic regulatory systems are stable and ...

Cumulative culture -- the accumulation of technological modifications and improvements over generations -- allowed humans to adapt to a diversity of environments and challenges. But, it is unclear ...

Plant molecular evolution offers key insights into how coding and regulatory changes shape the diversity of form and function across the plant kingdom. The ...