Cognitive ability is primarily inherited through genes, with little influence from shared family environments, according to new research.

Entomologists and engineers at Pennsylvania State University have embarked on a unique experiment by affixing QR codes to honey bees.

Animals often face challenges that require them to come up with solutions to novel problems or to find new solutions to existing ones; i.e. they need to innovate. However, not all individuals in a po...

Nature - A study of retrotransposon activity repurposes a retroelement called R2Tocc to create a programmable system called STITCHR that enables diverse genome edits including efficient, scarless...

Like a record, baby.

Promising new designs for gravitational wave detectors developed by artificial intelligence have left scientists with new questions about the cosmos.

To better understand how the African elephant-nose fish (Gnathonemus petersii) uses electrical fields to see the world, researchers built an artificial neural network based on recordings from the fish. Image credit: Shutterstock/slowmotiongli

Signaling from retinoic acid appears to be key to getting mice to regrow ear damage.

Artificial settlements, underwater lights doubled survival

Researchers at The University of Osaka and collaborating institutions have developed a cryo-optical microscopy technique that rapidly freezes live cells with millisecond precision during optical imaging. This enables detailed quantitative imaging of fast…

Using 11 years of magnetic field measurements from the European Space Agency’s Swarm satellite constellation, scientists have discovered that the weak region in Earth’s magnetic field over the South Atlantic – known as the South Atlantic Anomaly – has expanded…

The humble henna plant, famed for its vibrant dye, could hold the key to healing scarred livers. In a new study, researchers have found that its active compound, lawsone, may stop and even reverse liver fibrosis.

For some women, the path to orgasm does not involve sex. New research explores the surprising, and often misunderstood, experience of arousal and climax during physical exercise.

These things are way more complex than we realized.

New research shows gut microbes from socially anxious teens induce anxiety-like behaviors and brain changes in rats.

According to a team of researchers from the University of Arizona, new species are being discovered at a faster rate than ever before, one that far exceeds extinction. These newly discovered species could be key in advancements within medicine and technology.

First ancient HHV-6 genomes reveal 2500 years of phylogenetic continuity and provide insights into the endogenization of HHV-6A.

A new study uncovered hidden activity on California's fault lines.