The superior colliculus is a midbrain region that is traditionally thought to help animals orient themselves toward important locations in space, like directing their eyes and head toward a bright ...

A study on the origin of Covid-19 provided new evidence on Thursday supporting the theory that humans first caught the virus ...

Anthropologist and behavioural scientist Michael Muthukrishna has pioneered something called the 'cultural brain hypothesis', the idea that our environment and social lives have more of an impact on ...

This discovery indicates that formaldehyde contributed to the formation of organic matter on ancient Mars, implying that bio-important molecules such as sugars and ribose (a component of RNA, which is ...

Since Darwin revealed his seminal theory of evolution by natural selection, human beings have endeavored to understand their own evolutionary origins and history. A lot of questions still remain, but ...

Where do new genes come from? That's the question a team of biological sciences researchers from the U of A set out to answer ...