In contrast to those who resided in Siberia, Neanderthals who lived in what's now Belgium and France shortly before the ...

The DNA in a single cup of water can track wildlife, monitor pollution and survey pathogens in waterways and their ...

The enormous deep-sea cousins of your garden’s pill bugs can go five years without food. A gene they pilfered from bacteria ...

Are we alone in the universe? Consider mysterious "extraterrestrial" radio signals. Unexplained gases on other planets.

Due to artificial irrigation and rising temperatures, the concentration of salts (including sodium chloride, or "table salt") ...

Scientists with Scripps Research helped pioneer wastewater testing in San Diego, using samples taken from local treatment ...

Most butterflies survive just a few weeks on the wing, burning through life at full speed before vanishing. But a group of ...

For the past year, the Food and Drug Administration has done the exact opposite of what it promised. Leaders pledged to accelerate innovation and speed access to treatments for rare diseases. That ...

Genomic surveillance—the process of monitoring and sequencing pathogens—is one of the most important tools for detecting ...

The food industry, government and wider society can build a healthier future for children and their families – but the issues are complex, as a recent panel of experts found ...

A quiet layer of biology is beginning to change how health is understood, and it sits on the surface of nearly every cell in your body. Scientists now say these tiny sugar structures, once ignored, ...

DNA is contained in each cell of every plant, animal, fungus and microbe. It carries the genetic instructions needed for an organism’s survival, growth and function, and the DNA of each species is ...