"Mind reading" evokes images of futuristic scanners, but a study published in Nature Neuroscience demonstrates that a simple ...

Since 2008, girls have been offered the jab which protects against a number of cancers including cervical, mouth and throat ...

Researchers have discovered chemical traces of life in rocks older than 3.3 billion years, offering a rare look at Earth’s ...

Scientists found that kissing likely originated millions of years ago in great apes and was shared by early human relatives, including Neanderthals.

Blood cancers such as leukemia are caused by genetic changes in the blood-forming stem cells of the bone marrow. Scientists ...

A new core exploration course titled “The Biology of Sex and SEX” will be offered this spring. The class, co-taught by ...

A new study led by the University of Oxford has found evidence that kissing evolved in the common ancestor of humans and ...

A Senate committee advanced a bill Tuesday that would standardize kindergarten cutoff dates – with an amendment that would ...

Yi Du and colleagues from the Chinese Academy of Sciences published an article in the open access journal PLOS Biology ...

New research challenges the long-standing idea that most fixed genetic mutations are neutral. For many years, scientists studying evolution have believed that most genetic changes influencing how ...

The MacArthur Foundation is awarding $100 million to a private pandemic prevention network across Africa, offering critical ...

An international team of marine scientists has identified and assessed major threats to marine megafauna, which are needed to ...