Why do some people live to 100 while their sibling dies decades earlier? Is it luck, lifestyle, or something written into ...

Dyslexia genes date back to ancient fish. A major study explains why evolutionarily old genes cause problems with humanity's newest skill.

A million years of kitchen accidents may have forced the human immune system to evolve.

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...

King’s lomatia is a single clonal plant that has survived for over 43,000 years. Here’s how it’s outlasted ice ages, climate ...

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...

The red wolf ( Canis rufus) is a medium-sized canid that stands about 26 inches (66 centimeters) at the shoulder and measures ...

We are getting a clearer sense of where and how often Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, and it turns out the behaviour ...

In a new study, scientists analyzed how a biological battle played out between a strain of E. coli and a T7 bacteriophage, ...

Experts reconstructed the genome of Treponema pallidum from 5,500-year-old human remains in Colombia, revealing an unknown ...

How big of a role do our genes play in our lifespan? Quite a bit more than previously thought, a new study suggests.

The findings represent the oldest complete set of genetic information from this bacterial group and shed light on its ...