Already, it is teaching us how little we know. It may finally explain mysteries such as why humans have a chin – and what we might evolve into next.

The earliest forms of animal life on our planet continue to fascinate scientists, who are seeking to unravel the mystery of their origins. A team of geochemists from MIT recently provided new ...

In his laboratory at the University of Poitiers in France, Abderrazak El Albani contemplates the rock glittering in his hands. To the untrained eye, the specimen resembles a piece of golden tortellini ...

New work shows that physical folding of the genome to control genes located far away may have been a critical turning point for life on Earth. For evolutionary biologists, what most distinguishes the ...

One of the things I love most about science is that sometimes it gets things wrong. In other disciplines, errors are fatal; chefs don’t benefit from poisoning their patrons. But scientists learn early ...

The Nobel Prize for Medicine has been given to three scientists for discovering how our immune systems protect us from microbes. Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi won for their ...

The Nobel Assembly announced the Nobel Prize winners for 2025 at an annual event held at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 6, 2025. This year’s coveted Nobel Prize in medicine ...