A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the ...

One of the great mysteries of human evolution is the intermediate step represented by the presence of Neanderthals for thousands of years. The question is whether their disappearance is linked to ...

The images of these galaxies show their shapes ... The observations could help astronomers better understand cosmic evolution and how galaxies form stars as well as snatch other stellar bodies ...

Researchers discovered how genetic switches shaped human brain evolution by fine-tuning shared gene expression.

This article was originally published with the title “ The Evolution of the Physicist's Picture of Nature ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 208 No. 5 (May 1963), p. 45 doi:10.1038 ...