As animals go about their lives ― eating, fighting, having babies ― they don’t always follow the script laid out for them by ...

Near-death experiences, often reported after cardiac arrest or trauma, remain unexplained despite decades of research into ...

A new study explains why current brain theories fail to fully explain near-death experiences and consciousness.

From prophecy and divine communication to medical diagnosis, the ancient Greeks had many theories about why we dream.

An ambitious effort to create a paradigm explaning near-death experiences has failed to capture many fascinating and often perplexing aspects of people’s brushes with death, top University of Virginia ...

The molecular clock is based on a simple idea: genetic changes happen gradually and predictably over time. By working ...

A new study theorizes that evolution ticks at different speeds, especially when a big group of organisms first appears.

For more than a century, scientists have wondered why physical structures like blood vessels, neurons, tree branches, and ...

This 30-million-year-long gap is actually rather helpful to Darwin. It means that there was plenty of time for the ancestor ...

Human evolution is explained through branching lineages rather than a simple linear progression. Fossils, genetics, and archaeology together reveal how multiple human species emerged, interacted, and ...

The ancient question of how life began on Earth may have an answer that lies not in our planet's primordial oceans, but in the vast expanse of space itself. Recent scientific discoveries are breathing ...