Americans love science and revere innovation, almost as a rule, and politicians of every stripe have spent the better part of a century promoting and protecting both. However imperfect the resulting ...

A mysterious form of plague that spread across Eurasia thousands of years before the Black Death has finally revealed a crucial clue. Scientists analyzing ancient DNA discovered the bacterium Yersinia ...

Nobel laureate James Watson was expelled from his own laboratory after controversial racial statements that shook the scientific world.

Scientists studying 1,300 golden retrievers have uncovered genetic clues explaining why some dogs are more anxious, energetic, or aggressive than others. Remarkably, several of the same genes linked ...

How ancient gene transfers, genomes, and pollination shaped moths and butterflies - and why their sudden decline is raising ...

Learning French, reading the latest Andy Weir novel, hanging out with friends for St. Patrick’s Day — language is central to all these everyday activities. Seemingly effortless from childhood, ...

During the Middle Ages, a devastating plague wiped out roughly one third of Europe's population. The disease spread through fleas that carried the ...

The largely discredited theory states that Ashkenazi Jews are genetically descended from a Turkic minority that converted to ...

Learning French, reading the latest Andy Weir novel, hanging out with friends for St. Patrick's Day - language is central to all these everyday activities. Seemingly effortless from childhood, ...

Cats have long been something of a medical mystery. Compared to dogs, our feline friends receive a fraction of the research attention, but a sweeping new international study is changing that by ...

Thanks to advances in imaging and diagnostic technologies, clinicians can now detect many genetic disorders in the womb, ...