Genes associated with male reproductive biology appear to be under relaxed selective constraint in a primate species with low sperm competition.

Researchers studying the impact of cocaine in mice have found that just one exposure to the drug can create changes in brain cells that persist for at least two weeks.

A geneticist affiliated with Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute has proposed that Neanderthals did not evolve ...

The inhabitants probably hadn’t mastered fire-making, but researchers say they may have moved and maintained flames from a ...

Salvinia molesta can double its biomass in 36 hours. It spreads across ponds, lakes and slow-moving waterways in a smothering ...

Then advances in ancient DNA revealed a story of this child, buried over ten thousand years ago. It was a story far greater than anyone could have guessed. The child known to archaeologists as the ...

The gene that creates the human body has been identified. In a breakthrough that could help explain why so many pregnancies fail, scientists at the University of Cambridge showed ...

A genetic difference carried by nearly one in three people may increase the risk of severe COVID-19 and lung fibrosis by ...

A gene can vanish, and life can go on. That is one of the most striking lessons from a sweeping new analysis of 173,303 ...

Deep within tropical forests, sloths move at a pace that seems almost frozen in time. Their slow movements, low energy use, ...