While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.

As discoveries of species on Earth as well as objects in space speed up exponentially, new technology and “citizen science” ...

The conservation of genome regulatory elements over long periods of evolution is not limited to vertebrates, as previously ...

Utah biologists have characterized D. woaabi, the first of two nematode species recently discovered in the lake’s ...

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Advanced in organs on chips, digital twins, and AI are ushering in a new era of research and drug development. Earlier this week, the UK’s science minister announced an ambitious plan: to phase out ...

Animal-rights groups have long been at odds with the U.S. government, which subsidizes meat and dairy production and spends billions of dollars on animal research every year. But in some ways, they’ve ...

The government has set out a plan to phase out scientific experimentation on live animals in all but the most exceptional situations. New funding will be given to researchers to support a pivot ...

University of California, Santa Cruz, faculty members Rita Mehta and Colleen Reichmuth have been named California Academy of Sciences Fellows, joining a governing group of more than 500 distinguished ...

At a meeting of top conservation groups this week, a bioethics question took center stage: Should scientists be allowed to tinker with the genes of wild plants and animals? The tentative consensus so ...