The way the brain develops can shape us throughout our lives, so neuroscientists are intensely curious about how it happens.

Paleoanthropologists have announced the world's most complete skeleton of Homo habilis, a human ancestor that lived more than ...

Among the most famous demonstrations of genetic mutations driving infection outcome is severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID ...

Lizards have amazing regeneration abilities. When in danger, they may purposefully lose their tail, only for it to regrow ...

Our bones did not begin deep inside the body. They started in the skin, not long after the first complex animals took shape.

Researchers have unseated a previous theory for the mechanism underlying bacterial flagella movement, changing our ...

Jacobsen and Heidi Codling, from the Idaho Falls-based College of Eastern Idaho, have been visiting high school STEM ...

It was the year protein was oversold, overvalued and overhyped. The science of protein has not changed; we just need to ...

Researchers have identified a single protein whose absence can cripple tumors in mice, slowing their growth and in some cases ...

Director, writer and producer Barry Levinson won an Oscar for “Rain Man,” and his credits include such iconic films as “Diner ...

For decades, biology textbooks taught that DNA’s story could be told with a single image: two elegant strands twisting in a ...

As an eldest daughter and chronic overthinker, I am not a happy person by design. I am constantly setting New Year's resolutions I can't possibly stick to, my to-do lists are long and unnticked, and I ...