By Carol Clark Was it the evolution of the hand, or of the brain, that enabled prehistoric toolmakers to make the leap from simple flakes o...

Emory psychologist Frans de Waal writes an opinion piece in the New York Times : I was born in Den Bosch, the city after which Hieronymus B...

The journal Ecology Letters just published findings by Emory biologists that monarch butterflies use medication to cure themselves and the...

Photos by Jaap de Roode and Lisa Sharling. By Carol Clark Emory biologists are studying whether monarch butterflies can cure themselves and ...

The ancient Egyptians and Jordanians used beer to treat gum disease and other ailments. By Carol Clark A chemical analysis of the bone...

Yamini Potini did evolutionary biology experiments with monarch butterflies. Morgan Mingle spent her summer analyzing the musical tastes of ...

A hypothetical young planet with a soupy mix of potentially life-forming chemicals pooling around the base of rocks. Drawing by NASA. From f...

Mongrel dogs have a hardscrabble life in poor, rural communities of Argentina. Some diseases, like stray dogs, are largely neglected by soc...

More than 700 U.S. cities have combined sewer overflows, allowing wastewater to flow into urban waterways with minimal treatment. Video of ...

The A. Sediba cranium belonged to a juvenile that lived nearly 2 million years ago. Photo by Brett Eloff, courtesy of Wits University. Em...

The creation of the first self-replicating, synthetic cell by the J. Craig Venter Institute is being hailed as a milestone in the history of...

Emory scientists have discovered that simple peptides can organize into bi-layer membranes. The finding suggests a “missing link” between t...

Pea aphids, expert survivors of the insect world, appear to lack major biological defenses, according to the first genetic analysis of thei...

By Carol Clark Centuries ago, scientists began reducing the physics of the universe into a few, key laws described by a handful of parame...

The science blog io9.com recently paid a visit to two of the leading labs that use parasites and bugs to research evolutionary ecology. Bot...

Emory psychologist Frans de Waal writes in the Huffington Post : " Time has just chosen its "Man of the Year," whose intell...

Emory researchers believe they have come up with the cheapest, most efficient way yet to monitor adult mosquitoes and the deadly diseases th...