Whereas most of the cells in a healthy animal’s body get along by following the same set of genetic rules, cancer cells ...

From the ability to detect the smell of wet soil to the scent of ripe fruit, the human olfactory system has evolved over ...

A new study finds natural selection has reshaped hundreds of human genes in the past 10,000 years, driven by farming, disease ...

Plants are often seen as passive organisms, rooted in one place and largely unable to react to the world around them. But a ...

A Survival God for the Age of Abundance,” Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler explore what it means to be human in a world ...

Paradox: Eating more dietary omega-3s is associated with superior cognitive longevity. But there is not a strong signal for ...

Did humans lose their sense of smell? A study on the Orang Asli people reveals that hunter-gatherers maintain ancestral smell ...

Salk Institute neuroscientist Sreekanth “Shrek” Chalasani coined the term “sonogenetics” in 2015. Now, a little more than a decade later, he finds himself leading a team awarded $41.3 million to turn ...

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

In Lisbon for StreamTV Europe, Evan Shapiro elaborated on "a fork in the road at this moment for all of us" in the media.

From the ability to detect the smell of wet soil to the scent of ripe fruit, the human olfactory system has evolved over thousands of years in response to how people live and what they eat, according ...

Volvo has redefined its cars with software-driven innovation, boosting safety, charging speed and AI features as it leads the ...