Keeping to warm climates throughout their 250-million-year history may have helped crocodiles and their relatives survive the ...

Scientists at Trinity College Dublin have made an important breakthrough in understanding how cancer cells can evade the cell ...

A massive genetic study offers one of the clearest pictures yet of how DNA contributes to personality, identifying genetic variants associated with five major personality traits. However, rather than ...

Common ways of reporting perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)—the man-made, so-called forever chemicals that pose environmental and health threats—could underestimate the concentration ...

Rare variants in a gene involved in early development have been linked to a range of dental differences in people, including missing teeth, unusual tooth shapes, and teeth present at birth. By ...

A Japanese macaque from a group that experienced a deadly disease outbreak encounters two pieces of food — one placed on a clean surface and one placed on a surface with a visual cue of contamination.

Rutgers researchers are part of an international call for a microbiome moonshot, a massive, coordinated effort to pinpoint how certain microorganisms inside us drive chronic disease and how others can ...

(a) The central cluster of stars in The Starry Night (1889), left, and the Hyades cluster in Taurus, center. At right, the five stars in the painting (orange) are overlaid on the real stars (blue) ...

New research suggests the same personality traits associated with toxic corporate leaders today may have been present at the very birth of global capitalism 400 years ago.

Giant manta rays can grow up to nine meters long with a disc size of seven meters across and weigh up to 2,000 kg. This size leaves them with very few natural enemies once they reach adulthood at ...

Jesse Poganik, PhD, of the Division of Genetics within the Department of Medicine at Mass General Brigham, is the senior author of a paper published in Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism, “The ...