By Dr. Liji Thomas, MD New genetic research reveals that when students attend better schools, their reading success depends ...

Scientists at the University of Sheffield are conducting research into natural genetic engineering with a focus on Lateral Gene Transfer to help improve crop resilience to extreme weather.

Currently, most pupils in the UK sit for a double science GCSE equivalent to two GCSEs, which combines physics, biology and ...

European cuckoos lay very different eggs depending on the host species. Genetic analyses have revealed how this adaptation is inherited without ...

New research posits that a genetic incompatibility between female offspring of humans and Neanderthals and their children ...

The neurologic disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE has most often been found in people who experienced repeated blows to the head while playing contact sports and there’s now ...

Obesity is a global epidemic affecting millions of people every day and is associated with comorbidities ranging from heart ...

An international research team led by Hiroki Shibuya at RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan has ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

For visitors wandering among mastodon skeletons and other impressive remains from the Pleistocene epoch at Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum, a non-descript piece of cranium with broken stubs of antlers ...

The Internet has Google. Now biology has MetaGraph. Detailed today in Nature 1, the search engine can quickly sift through the staggering volumes of biological data housed in public repositories.

Scientists claim to have found evidence of alien genetic manipulation in human DNA, with large sections of genes seemingly 'inserted' into people, potentially affecting millions of humans. If ...