New research shows RNA is preserved for longer than scientists had realized. This is the oldest RNA ever profiled.

Mosquito-borne diseases, including dengue, Zika, and yellow fever, continue to pose a significant global health threat, ...

City-dwelling raccoons seem to be evolving a shorter snout—a telltale feature of our pets and other domesticated animals ...

Researchers from Karolinska Institutet have discovered how mammalian cells prevent the gradual buildup of harmful mutations ...

You’ve heard the slogans: save the whales, protect our pollinators. You may have lamented the decline of polar bears or the last of the northern white rhinos. But scientists are only beginning to ...

The immune system faces a delicate balancing act: it must be aggressive enough to fight infections and cancer, yet restrained ...

Scientists successfully sequence the RNA from woolly mammoths found in Siberia that lived up between 10,000 thousand and ...