For more than 270 million years, trilobites were among the most successful and diverse creatures on Earth, with over 22,000 ...

Over 100 attendees filled NYU’s annual Darwin Lecture on Monday, where Princeton professor Lindy McBride explored how humans ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took this selfie at a location nicknamed "Mary Anning" after a 19th century English ...

The failure of the United States to crush Iran also shows the extraordinary evolution of warfare as Tehran resists the ...

A new study finds natural selection has reshaped hundreds of human genes in the past 10,000 years, driven by farming, disease ...

In 1993, 25 years after her family launched their foundation, the group of scientists they supported finally identified the ...

A common element in “Star Trek” and other science fiction is their depiction of humanoid alien species. If life exists ...

Synthetic biologists were tantalized by the idea of making mirror images of microbes. Then things got complicated.

When you think about our origin story, and of our planet -- among all of the planets in the cosmos -- there is a deep ...

There are countless lessons to learn in life, but some of the most profound ones come from the animals we share our lives with. Dogs, in particular, have extraordinary potential to teach us important ...

One of the world’s leading investment firms has broken its own record with the closing of its $6.3 billion Blackstone Life Sciences VI (BLXS VI) fund, which is 40% larger than its predecessor.

Blackstone Inc. closed its latest life-sciences fund with $6.3 billion of commitments, the firm’s biggest haul for backing clinical trials of medicines and technologies. The new vehicle, Blackstone ...