A study in fruit flies suggests an internal genomic arms race may be driving rapid evolution in proteins that still perform an essential, unchanging job: protecting chromosome ends.

The virus often mutates by simply deleting small pieces of its genetic code. The mutations "disguise" the virus from ...

It's well known that too much exposure to radiation is hazardous to living organisms like humans, but nudging along evolution ...

Methane isn’t just an environmental buzzword—it is energy lost. Every puff of gas from a cow’s rumen represents feed energy ...

A study on Indo-European languages, using direct linguistic data, reconciles the two dominant hypotheses of where and how ...

For decades, autism has been described as a spectrum - an elastic term that stretches from nonverbal children to adults with ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

Women with ovarian cancer have a higher incidence of colorectal cancer, and vice versa, as indicated by standardized incidence ratios. A recent review suggests women with ovarian or colorectal cancer ...

The Ocean Genome Legacy Center and other biorepositories like it are increasingly crucial to climate change research as ...

Over 70 new species, from insects to dinosaurs, were identified in 2025 by combining fieldwork, museum collections, and ...

AI maps fleeting DNA quadruplexes, revealing paired structures that control genes in healthy cells and cancer.

A new study published in Science Translational Medicine by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center ...