Few natural wonders are as breathtakingly surreal as the electric blue flames dancing across Indonesia's Kawah Ijen volcano.

Scientists are one step closer to pinpointing fragments of Leonardo da Vinci’s elusive DNA. A team of researchers from the ...

According to a new (but as-of-yet not peer-reviewed) study published in the preprint database bioRxiv, scientists began their ...

Apple breeding focuses on unique traits like red flesh, but success depends on genetic compatibility. This study refined a ...

Red blood is the exception, not the rule. Evolution has painted it green, purple and white in animals that push physiology ...

Exercise helps at any age—but for seniors, smart strength training means rising with ease and avoiding deadly falls, says ...

Scientists have recovered tiny DNA traces left on Renaissance artifacts, at least some of which they suspect belong to ...

The disturbing revelation in southern Italy saw a number of skeletons discovered in a burial ground, with scientists calling ...

We all need the right amount of vitamins and minerals to keep us healthy but many watch some more closely than others ...

The night sky has a habit of slipping into the background during quieter years. Fewer headline events pass overhead, and ...

A recent study finds that certain psychiatric disorders have considerable genetic overlap. But these genes aren’t the whole ...

This study offers important insight into the pathogenic basis of intragenic frameshift deletions in the carboxy-terminal domain of MECP2, which account for some Rett syndrome cases, yet similar ...