Nobody really knows how to speak to the future in a way that it will hear.

Dr. Comfort is a historian of genetics who is completing a biography of James Watson. At first, James Watson terrified me. It ...

A new study of ancient dog DNA shows that people and dogs traveled together across Eurasia for at least 10,000 years.

Perspective is everything, but these curious maps might give a whole new approach to the weird and wonderful world that we ...

After researchers published their findings of two different spider species peacefully cohabiting in a giant colony nestled in ...

With “Crick: A Mind in Motion,” the British biologist Matthew Cobb aims for the tricky “middle path”: a life vivid enough to ...

Advances in sequencing ancient DNA have revealed that over millenia, people have moved into new regions in successive waves, ...

Analysis of Adolf Hitler’s DNA reveals he may have had a rare genetic disorder that delays puberty, a new documentary says. Experts say that more details are needed.

Modern dog breeds come in a mind-boggling array of shapes and sizes—from Chihuahua to Great Dane, corgi to greyhound, pug to ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers has combined deep botanical knowledge with powerful genomic technology to decode and mine the DNA of non-flowering seed plants and uncover genes that evolved to ...

A man accused of being involved in the firebombing of a synagogue in Melbourne’s east that traumatised a community of 2000 and left children too scared to attend services, has been released from ...