A dog learns to sit on command, a person hears and eventually tunes out the hum of a washing machine while reading … The ...

DNA is typically found within chromosomes, but certain tumors store cancer-promoting genes outside of chromosomes as ...

This week, researchers formulated a new method to calculate the probability of generating intelligent life in the universe.

Leveraging a unique statistical analysis and applying it to ancient DNA extracted from human skeletal remains, a team of ...

Microorganisms—bacteria, viruses and other tiny life forms—may drive biological variation in visible life as much, if not ...

Up until recently, habituation -- a simple form of learning -- was deemed the exclusive domain of complex organisms with brains and nervous systems, such as worms, insects, birds, and mammals. But a ...

If the United States does not lead in emerging biotechnologies, our adversaries will, writes GOP Sen. Todd Young of Indiana.

The history of a major animal group, composed of millions of species of insects, arachnids, and nemotodes, has been elusive -- until now. A team has now identified the oldest known ecdysozoan in the ...

The rod-shaped tuberculosis (TB) bacterium, which the World Health Organization has once again ranked as the top infectious disease killer globally, is the first single-celled organism ever observed ...

Ahead of a new album and world tour, "The Offspring", the Orange County punk group that rose to fame in the 90s, sat down to ...

The article, based on a study of young earthworms exposed to various hypergravity conditions for eight days, was authored by ...