Researchers in Lithuania present the molecular structure of a new, more-versatile CRISPR system for gene editing.

When my children were younger, I used to have to teach them how to come to me when I met them at the school playground.” Ms ...

Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago.

Remains found buried in a shallow grave in 2012 have been identified as a man last seen when his mother dropped him off at a ...

From Tianjin University and the Stockholm-based Karolinksa Institutet, the researchers found high levels of cardiorespiratory ...

Researchers are trying to understand why resistant pathogens are so prevalent in the war-torn nations of the Middle East.

A look at how immigrants helped shape the American West in the 1941 film.

Riverside, California, cold case homicide investigators used DNA technology to link a man who passed a lie detector in connection to a 1979 murder, to the crime.

Social media users are recycling a discredited claim that Australia's Indigenous people wiped out a pygmy population that ...

FRUIT FLIES are smart. For a start—the clue is in the name—they can fly. They can also flirt; fight; form complex, long-term memories of their surroundings; and even warn one another about the ...

Researchers have made great strides to prevent deaths from fatal diseases, but the cures for some of them still elude us.

A fascinating new study, published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, has revealed an unexpected potential benefit of ...