Emily Kwong and Berly McCoy of NPR's Short Wave talk about why swearing might improve physical performance, how birds' bills changed during the pandemic and why scientists are sampling whale breath.

Doctors and scientists say this year's influenza season could be tougher than usual, with a new version of the flu virus, ...

Misinformation isn’t just human. A new study shows how false signals spread across biology, from bacteria to bird flocks.

A Scots poultry farm - believed to be one of the biggest in Europe - has reported a bird flu outbreak.

A study by Kristin Winchell (NYU) sequenced the genomes of these reptiles and found 93 specific genes related to limb and skin development that had diverged from forest populations. The city lizards ...

But some social media users have suggested a noticeable difference in one popular song in particular — "The Twelve Days of ...

The COVID-19 pandemic changed a lot for human society – but it also caused a local species of bird to rapidly evolve, ...

So far this month, Gospel Rock has produced the two best birds: Lewis’s woodpecker on the 6th (photo, Karen Holland) and ...

UChicago paleontologists use CT scanning and simulations to show how a 250-million-year-old mammal predecessor could hear ...

Some feathered dinosaurs may have lost the ability to fly, revealing that the evolution of flight was far more complex than ...

A UCLA campus shutdown during COVID revealed rapid evolution in urban birds, as junco beaks shifted with the rise and fall of ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...