Colin Wright, an evolutionary biologist, filed a lawsuit against Cornell on Monday in the U.S. District Court for the ...

Every step you take depends on a structure most people rarely think about. The pelvis sits at the center of the body and ...

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology today announced the release of a new online tool for studying biodiversity and the ...

The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are ...

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have a unique resource in the form of the Center for Biomolecular ...

Why do humans have larger penises than other primates? New research tests attraction, rivalry, and sexual selection for ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

The chin is one of our most familiar features, yet scientists still debate why we evolved it. Here’s a breakdown of what we ...

A new study found that women in Finland who had a lot of kids—or none—aged faster than those with one or a few kids. But the findings don’t necessarily translate to today’s parents ...

People have long said that “bread is life.” Now, researchers at Tufts University are using the bubbling mixtures of flour and water known as sourdough starters to explore what shapes life at the ...

A single thermal performance curve applies across life, from bacteria to animals. Species differ in optimal temperatures, but ...