In most developing tissues, signals called morphogens act like lighthouses, guiding nearby cells toward their fate and ...

Although we humans have changed our environment in many ways during the past few thousand years, we are still changed by ...

Cornell researchers have found that a new DNA sequencing technology can be used to study how transposons move within and bind ...

This study explains why helpful DNA changes appear often but rarely spread, because environments shift too fast for evolution ...

Researchers found that ancient hominids—including early humans—were exposed to lead throughout childhood, leaving chemical ...

At the mercy of natural selection since the dawn of life, our ancestors adapted, mated and died, passing on tiny genetic mutations that eventually made humans what we are today. But evolution isn't ...

On the northern edge of Ukraine, inside the 30-km (19-mile) exclusion zone surrounding the abandoned Chornobyl (commonly ...

Orange cats have always stood out in the living room, but new research shows they also stand apart in the mammal family tree.

Dogs and wolves living today derive from a shared ancient wolf population that lived alongside woolly mammoths and cave bears ...