The human brain is one of the most complex parts of the body. It controls how we think, feel, remember, and behave.

Species either adapt or die. This is the basis for extinction, and why many animals eventually succumb to various factors that threaten their existence. In some rare cases, however, a species responds ...

A massive study of ancient DNA from nearly 16,000 people across more than 10,000 years in West Eurasia reveals that natural ...

A sweeping genetic study of over 150 species reveals that life’s move from water to land was not a single story, but a series ...

Exclusive breastfeeding for at least three months is associated with subtle, long-term DNA changes in children ...

Scientists have found a link between super-agers' longevity and DNA analyzed from Ice Age hunter-gatherer populations in ...

A short period of heat stress changed genes in fruit flies, and these changes lasted for generations. Some offspring even ...

Researchers at Bar-Ilan University have discovered that changing just one letter in DNA can completely alter sex development in mice. In the new study, published in Nature Communications, a ...

Remarkably, 98 percent of our DNA does not code for genes. Once considered “junk DNA,” it is now well appreciated that these ...

An analysis of blood samples has found that children who were exclusively breastfed for at least the first three months carry ...