Humans carry the DNA of two mysterious “ghost” ancestors who passed on their genes before going extinct, researchers have said.

In a new Science study, scientists read the family tree buried inside modern genomes and turned up “ghost ancestors” in every population on Earth that no fossil records can account for. Anatomically ...

The octopus is a biological oddity. It can use tools, open jars, and its complex nervous system supports as many neurons as a ...

By Kermit Pattison / Harvard Staff WriterThe octopus is a biological oddity. It can use tools, open jars, and its complex nervous system supports as ...

Scientists created an enzyme that cleans one of the most common AGEs from human tissue, helping to turn back the clock even ...

Imagine waking up to find your entire body gone — no torso, no limbs — just a head that has expanded, split into five ...

A single dose of a cancer-causing chemical, given to mice at 15 days of age, produced strikingly different tumors depending ...

The Covid-19 origins controversy is more complicated than Rand Paul and Republicans or Anthony Fauci have been willing to admit.

The rapid expansion of high-throughput sequencing and viral metagenomics has uncovered a vast and largely uncharacterized ...

Adrian Hayday is an immunobiologist at the Francis Crick Institute in London, UK, and King’s College London. He was a postdoctoral fellow with Tonegawa (1982–1985). Susumu Tonegawa was a renowned ...

There is warfare in Nature everywhere, and warfare between MAN and NATURE. Chicken eats earthworms and millipedes. Cats eat chickens.

Biologist Michael Levin has spent his life trying to prove that minds show up in places we’d never think to look.