Already, it is teaching us how little we know. It may finally explain mysteries such as why humans have a chin – and what we might evolve into next.

In his laboratory at the University of Poitiers in France, Abderrazak El Albani contemplates the rock glittering in his hands. To the untrained eye, the specimen resembles a piece of golden tortellini ...

Fungi’s evolutionary roots stretch far deeper than once believed — up to 1.4 billion years ago, long before plants or animals ...

New work shows that physical folding of the genome to control genes located far away may have been a critical turning point for life on Earth. For evolutionary biologists, what most distinguishes the ...

The Nobel Prize for Medicine has been given to three scientists for discovering how our immune systems protect us from microbes. Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi won for their ...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden ‒ American scientists Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi from Japan won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for their discoveries in controlling ...

Carolyn Bertozzi and colleagues laid out a way to make paradigm-shifting "click-chemistry" compatible with living cells, ...