The path toward intelligent life, they argue, may be more of a predictable process, unfolding as global conditions allow in a ...

Darwin's theory of natural selection provides an explanation for why organisms develop traits that help them survive and reproduce.

Researchers have proven that antibiotic-resistant strains of a harmful bacteria thrive in a diabetic infection environment.

Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability ...

Aliens probably look just like we do, a new study suggests. This is because scientists now believe life on Earth evolved in a ...

Using a series of more than 1,000 X-ray snapshots of the shapeshifting of enzymes in action, researchers at Stanford ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

For decades, scientists believed that intelligent life was a rare cosmic accident. A new study challenges that idea, arguing ...

Penn State researchers propose that intelligent life on Earth, and possibly elsewhere, may be more likely than previously ...