If you think about the world around us, the meaning of completing a certain well-defined task usually remains constant. If someone tells you that they just built a house, you can develop expectations ...

A few weeks ago I was at a conference about galaxy evolution. In the titles of many talks was the puzzling phrase, “secular evolution.” Secular? As opposed to religious? So secular evolution is galaxy ...

New research challenges the long-standing idea that most fixed genetic mutations are neutral. For many years, scientists studying evolution have believed that most genetic changes influencing how ...

We might not know the meaning of life, but a group of scientists working for NASA came up with a definition for it that’s just seven words long: “Self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian ...

A revolutionary law of physics explains it all—sports and technology, air currents and population growth, migration and social hierarchy. According to your book, physics describes the actions or ...

Last night was the second-ever All-women Premium Live Event, WWE Evolution. The opening match of the night was the Triple Threat Match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship. The Man Becky Lynch ...

How do animals produce and perceive biological information in sounds? To what extent does the acoustic structure and its associated meaning change during evolution? An international team has ...

A new evolutionary definition of cell types is presented. Cell types are evolutionary units defined by common descent rather than phenotypic similarity, and characterized by their ability to evolve ...

It is widely accepted that any person who texts you using periods is a person who has no business texting you at all. The only exception to this is your Nana. Yet this may be why you love her texts: ...

A new study draws on a rigorous analysis of the Corpus of Historical Japanese to trace the semantic evolution of the verb ...