TV highlights coming up over the next week include Evolution and Penelope Keith Night:.

Vaccinating against HIV has been a decades-long effort, stymied by the virus’s high mutation rate and mask of human glycans.

PBS science strand “Nova” is set to explore the “epic journey of life” in a new series about evolution. “Nova: Evolution” is ...

Long before the dawn of modern parenting, animals laid eggs and moved on, leaving their progeny to fend for themselves. Now, ...

The idea of ‘biological agency’ — that life devises its own goals and behaves accordingly — complicates our understanding of ...

The internet has discovered carcinization: how different crustaceans keep evolving into crabs. It's disturbing.

Genes associated with male reproductive biology appear to be under relaxed selective constraint in a primate species with low sperm competition.

A breakthrough study revealed a primitive brain region that acts as a built-in filter to block out a noisy world.

The Multi-Sensory Convergence Ladder: As signals ascend deeper into the fish’s forebrain, specifically into a structure called the pallium, single-sense neurons give way to multi-sensory cells. This ...

Blind Mexican cavefish became active in light while surface fish reacted to darkness, revealing how evolution rewired brains.

Line up the brains of a fish, bird and a mammal, and something unexpected comes up. You do not see three different answers to the problem of making sense of the world. You see one answer, tilted three ...

Teetering near endangered status, the starlet sea anemone produces “an ancient mechanism” for fighting viruses that ...