Termites did not evolve complex societies by adding new genetic features. Instead, scientists found that they became more ...

The world's first human womb transplant has taken place on a 26-year-old woman in Saudi Arabia, it has been revealed. The transplanted human uterus produce ...

Last fall, a plane took off from Ottawa, Ontario, with some unusual cargo: a collection of nonviable human embryos and eggs.

Scientists have uncovered a 400-million-year-old genetic secret that gave spiders the ability to produce silk and weave their ...

Brevard is releasing sterilized male mosquitoes to combat dengue fever, Zika and other mosquito-borne illnesses.

These “walking sharks” can lay eggs without spending extra energy, rewriting what scientists thought they knew about reproduction.

A new analysis suggests that genes play a much larger role in human longevity than previously believed. But lifestyle factors ...

Early in development, many animals pick a team—male or female—based on their genetics, and, with time, acquire the ...

Jay Bhattacharya, the N.I.H. director, says authorities broke the public’s trust in the Covid era. Now it’s up to outsiders ...

Forget everything you thought you knew about the longevity gap; a groundbreaking study reveals that the secret to a longer ...

Walking through a chronological history of everything from eugenics and the forced sterilization movement through the origins of Silicon Valley and the founding of Open AI, writer and director Valerie ...

They therefore trapped small mammals—mostly mice, voles, squirrels and shrews—at 40 sites in the wildernesses of eastern ...