Today (May 22) is United Nations International Day for Biological Diversity, drawing attention to a critical resource for ...

A new computational program, MicroFinder, enables faster and more accurate assembly of bird genomes. Improved genome ...

When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied ...

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new ...

Users report that seconds stretch into eternity, sounds turn into color, and you very self begins dissolving. And now, after ...

A new scientific theory suggests that many age-related diseases may not begin in later life at all, but instead are seeded ...

The scientists behind the synthetic egg say it’s a crucial step to the de-extinction of species like the giant moa and the ...

In the 1990s, paleontologists excavated the oldest existing evidence of Earth’s smallest carnivore in Aragón, Spain. Between ...

This snake’s deadly venom and terrifying appearance can sometimes distract us from viewing it not just as an apex predator, but also as a marvel of nature.

Flesh-eating” bacteria is spreading. Infectious fungi are emerging. Microbiomes may never be the same. Are we ready?

A new study uses deep linear networks to prove that language undergoes iterated learning to become structured and learnable.