Within 400 milliseconds, your brain and face begin responding to another person's smile, setting off a cascade that researchers are only beginning to understand.

Exceptionally preserved fossils from China reveal that bryozoans were already thriving during the Cambrian explosion.

A spider species found in the Ecuadorian Amazon has evolved to look almost exactly like a dead spider overtaken by parasitic ...

A new spider discovered in the Amazon disguises itself as a parasitic fungus - similar to the plot of the hit video game and TV series The Last of Us.

As a galactic archaeologist, my job is to reconstruct the past of our galaxy – and read the signs of its future.

National Award-winning Malayalam actor Salim Kumar laid to rest with full state honours in Kerala, as PM Modi, Mammootty, ...

Director Kamal reflects on his deep friendship with Salim Kumar, his evolution from mimicry to award-winning roles, and his ...

A landmark study of several butterfly lineages and a day-flying moth in South America shows that convergent evolution — when unrelated species arrive at the same solution — isn’t just a coincidence; ...

Different species, separated by millions of years, may still follow the same genetic blueprint, suggesting evolution is less random and more repeatable than once believed. Credit: Stock A ...

Monarch butterfly. Credit: TexasEagle / Flickr / CC BY-NC 2.0 Evolution reuses the same genes to produce identical wing color patterns in butterflies and moths that diverged up to 120 million years ...

Scientists have shown that evolution has been using the same genetic ‘cheat sheet’ for over 120 million years, suggesting that life on earth may be more predictable than first imagined. The ...