NASA had a big – and little – problem. For a small satellite, the agency needed a tiny antenna, with very specific communication capabilities and very strict limits on size and weight. The agency gave ...

Natural selection has been playing a bigger role in changing modern human DNA than previously thought, according to a new study. geralt via Wikimedia Commons under CC0 Many people are familiar with ...

The whole world could soon be seeing red. Instead of being the punchline, redheads will have the last laugh, as a new study reports that humans have been constantly evolving to have flame-colored hair ...

Gingers have been typecast throughout history. Aristotle believed red hair to be a sign of courage, while writers of the Middle Ages viewed it as an indication of wild passions. Yet for those who have ...

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA indicates that natural selection continued to shape hundreds of genes. By Carl ...

A massive study of ancient DNA from nearly 16,000 people across more than 10,000 years in West Eurasia reveals that natural selection has shaped modern human genomes far more than previously thought.

HUMANS HAVE never been immune from the pressures of natural selection. Throughout the history of the species circumstances have arisen to give individuals with certain beneficial mutations an ...

View post: New Zealand's Ski Season Delayed Once Again The waiting game is over. The footage from Super Sessions, a new qualifying event for the ski side of the Natural Selection Tour, is officially ...

Jie Wu, an engineering graduate student, was studying a type of striking white beetle found in Southeast Asia and attempting to figure out how to mimic its brilliant color when an unexpected discovery ...

The inaugural Natural Selection Surf is officially a wrap, with Australians Milla Coco Brown and Soli Bailey emerging as the first-ever champions. An electric two-day showdown in Micronesia’s ...

The Coordinated Research Project (CRP) will focus on numerical simulations and analysis of the tests performed in 2020-2025 at the Sodium Integral Effect Test Loop for Safety Simulation and Assessment ...

Gabriel Gomes believes the future of chemistry is as much about flasks and fume hoods as it is about code. A chemical engineer at Carnegie Mellon University, Gomes works at the intersection of ...