Scientists studying thousands of rats discovered that gut bacteria are shaped by both personal genetics and the genetics of ...

The cave is low and dark, and it is dug into limestone on a little island in the Baltic Sea where the wind blows salt from ...

When related animals produce offspring, the young can be affected by physical abnormalities and health problems. We explain why.

Giant amphipod species Alicella gigantea, once thought to be very rare, is found to inhabit the majority of Earth's deep ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

Persistent recruitment delays, high dropout rates, and missed timelines continue to slow global clinical trials, while data show that sub-Saharan Africa offers a largely untapped opportunity with ...

Important and well-loved tree species and Britain’s only remaining native cat are under critical threat without their ...

Researchers from Nazarbayev University's National Laboratory created the first large-scale, high-quality genotyping dataset ...

Important and well-loved tree species and Britain’s only remaining native cat are under critical threat without their conservation ...

Many people insist cilantro tastes like soap, yet others pile it onto tacos without hesitation. The disagreement shows up at ...

A team of researchers in Norway, home to the largest remaining wild salmon populations as well as one of the largest ...

Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.