Researchers have revealed that so-called “junk DNA” contains powerful switches that help control brain cells linked to Alzheimer’s disease. By experimentally testing nearly 1,000 DNA switches in human ...

Doctors in Brazil discover and confirm that a woman has blood with male chromosomes, a rare case of human chimerism.

Undergoing ultraviolet light sessions is as harmful as exposing yourself to the sun without any sunscreen. To understand why ...

Your next favorite true crime podcast might have some new forensics jargon to make sense of. Researchers in Australia have developed a new way to identify humans – similar to how we do with DNA and ...

Scientists photograph the elusive ginkgo-toothed beaked whale, the source of the BW43 echolocation pulse, for the first time.

In an opinion piece published in Microbiology Australia, a James Cook University team led by Dr. Yaoqin Hong recently ...

James Cameron leaves several major questions unanswered in "Avatar: Fire and Ash," and it's not clear how they'll be resolved in future installments.

If you find yourself in Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, paper statistics quickly become apparent in the real-world: The Dutch are really tall. What's doubly amazing is that they tower over their immedi ...

An international team of researchers has uncovered a genetic secret within barley seeds that could help protect the global food supply from the unpredictable effects of climate change. The study, ...

Under the guidance of Xi's thought on ecological civilization, China has been advancing the green transition of its economy ...

Science moves forward on data. We all know this. But bad data leads science down dead ends. It wastes time. It wastes money.

What are usually seen as 14 different mental health or neurodiversity conditions could really be five clusters of closely related ones ...