Animal rescue advocate and dog dad Joey Graceffa awaits the surprising results of a genetic test to find out the exact heritage of his foster pups.

Scientists show DNA polymerases can build long, patterned DNA without a template called "doodling," opening new paths for ...

An Amazonian bird turned out to be five distinct species; two of them were previously unknown to the scientific community.

At first sight, stromatolites may seem unremarkable. The stromatolite formations found in Shark Bay, Western Australia, do ...

By contract, Zaki says, hope is “the idea that the future could turn out well, but that we don’t know what the future holds.

Illegal plant trade is often associated with images of tropical hardwood. But closer to home, European edible orchids are ...

In the 1960s, Idaho wildlife officials brought fishers to the Bitterroot and Clearwater mountains of north central Idaho from ...

Is the hype around the health benefits of ancient grains justified? Scientists say its not as clear-cut as you might think.

Cancer stem cells (CSCs), a critical subpopulation within tumors, drive cancer initiation, progression, metastasis, relapse, ...

Austronesian' — the term that appears in textbooks, classrooms, the Matatag curriculum, social media, and research — is not a people nor is it one language ...

The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation has named 13 new Damon Runyon Fellows, exceptional postdoctoral scientists conducting basic and translational cancer research in the laboratories of leading ...

There is something deeply unsettling about the age we live in. At a time when humanity has mastered the skies and charted the depths of the oceans, when we can speak across continents in seconds and ...