Just yesterday (Dec. 15), the Green River levee was breached, raising the specter of flash flooding in Tukwila, south of ...

Every living being must cope with a changing world—summer gives way to winter, one year it floods and the next is a drought.

Why did humans evolve the eyes we have today? While scientists can't go back in time to study the environmental pressures ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

Immense progress in gene-editing, drug discovery and conservation are just some of the reasons to be cheerful about 2025.

Darwinian evolution says that complex systems arise through numerous successive, slight modifications that benefit the ...

Archeologists from Italy have unearthed the remains of a stunning 4,500-year-old Egyptian temple where visitors would sky-gaze while on the roof.

A veteran state lawmaker wants to force Arizona public schools that teach evolution to also teach "intelligent design,'' what ...

Republican state Sen. David Farnsworth plans to introduce a bill to force public schools that teach evolution to also teach ...

The sharp, elongated bills of green hermit hummingbirds aren’t just fine-tuned for feeding; they also allow males to joust ...

Tardigrades are survivors. For more than 500 million years, the microscopic “water bears” have spread all over the planet and endured some of the harshest conditions Earth has to offer. Now a new ...

Lawmaker wants to force public schools that teach evolution to also teach "intelligent design,'' another word for ...