The bold question-askers at What If use dinosaur battles to explore whether brains or brawn win out in nature’s arms race.

Is consciousness like jazz, something hard to pin down? Or is it more like the biology of dolphins, odd but natural?

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Gain-of-function experiments are ingrained in the scientific process. In many instances, the benefits that stem from gain-of-function experiments are not immediately clear. Only decades later does the ...

Most organisms fit comfortably into standard definitions of “life,” i.e., cells that grow, reproduce independently, and generate energy. Viruses have always been an exception, sitting in a gray area ...

Ambitious study will profile thousands of tumor samples to uncover novel biomarkers and therapeutic targets for cancer and ...

At some point during the evolution of life on Earth, inorganic matter became organic, nonliving matter became living. How this happened is one of ...

Every time Fred Below and Connor Sible meet with Illinois farmers, they get the same question. "What's the story with these ...

Twelve years ago when both sides of politics supported big changes to the Sex Discrimination Act, there was little dispute on the floor of parliament.