SAN FRANCISCO – How has the IRS kept Form 1040 as short as it is — just one two-sided page — even as the tax code becomes ever more complex? By pushing most of the grunt work required to do one's ...

Oxygen played a key role in the evolution of complex organisms, according to new research published in BMC Evolutionary Biology. The study shows that the complexity of life forms increased earlier ...

Our living planet, as Charles Darwin wrote in On the Origin of Species, is one of “endless forms most beautiful”. But go back a couple of billion years and things would have looked very different.

In his laboratory at the University of Poitiers in France, Abderrazak El Albani contemplates the rock glittering in his hands. To the untrained eye, the specimen resembles a piece of golden tortellini ...

A complex form of carbon crucial for life on Earth has been spotted outside the solar system for the first time. Its presence helps show how the compounds needed for life could come from space. The ...