Most scientific breakthroughs don’t begin in a laboratory. They begin with someone pausing and noticing something that ...

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

Earth’s earliest microbes may have built vital chemistry around molybdenum, a metal thought too scarce to matter in ancient ...

Marine scientists have discovered that what was once thought to be a single sea slug species is actually at least 75 distinct ...

The transgender creative discusses his new documentary, Second Nature, which shows how gay penguins and sex-changing fish are ...

Every human voice is acoustically unique. The anatomy and evolutionary history behind that fact turns out to be one of ...

Reptiles have been growing armor in their skin on and off for hundreds of millions of years, but scientists never fully ...

Researchers at Aligarh Muslim University discover a new multidrug-resistant bacterial genome in city drains, raising concerns ...

There is a special kind of tyranny in being born into a world designed for somebody else’s hand. The scissors are wrong.

Study reveals a Universal Thermal Performance Curve, UTPC, predicting how all life responds to heat, challenging evolution ...

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

About 90 per cent of humans across all cultures favour their right hand for tasks, and this dominance of right-handedness may ...