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Recent research may point towards a solution to the 'water paradox' for the early formation of life

How will life on Earth and the ecosystems that support it adapt to climate change? Which species will go extinct – or evolve into something new? How will microbes develop further resistance to antibiotics?

It’s a paradox: Life needs water to survive, but a world full of water can’t generate the biomolecules that would have been essential for early life. Or so researchers thought.

Nearly 300 years ago the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus secured his place in scientific history when he created what’s known as the binomial system. The year was 1737 and, due to the large diversity of plants and animals collected by naturalist explorers in different parts of the world, Linnaeus saw…

Our Medieval ancestors left us with a biological legacy: Genes that helped them survive the Black Death likely make us more susceptible to certain diseases today

How did life form from non-living chemicals? New research looks to the motion of the ocean

As a new study confirms drinking too much really does make you look older, Lisa Salmon looks into other lifestyle factors that may contribute too

The Victorian biologist and anthropologist TH Huxley and his Unesco director grandson, Julian, are compelling twin poles in this wonderfully ambitious saga of a scientific dynasty

Hybrid species of human, once seen by experts as science fiction, may have played a key role in our evolution. Here are 6 recent discoveries that illuminate our story.

In a cluster of new studies from recent years, researchers have been able to grow life from animal stem cells in a petri dish. But it isn't yet clear when (and if) they'll do the same for humans.

Scientific study has painted humans as as cleverer, more intellectual and caring than our ancestral predecessors.