A researcher made the discovery when a larva comb jelly mysteriously "replaced" an adult comb jelly in his laboratory.

The findings, which used DNA from the plaster casts of people who died in the Mt. Vesuvius eruption two millennia ago, ...

An international team of researchers has provided a genetic diagnosis for 30 individuals whose condition was undiagnosed for years despite extensive clinical or genetic testing.

Found in a cremation cemetery in Belgium, the skeleton includes bones dating to the Neolithic period and a Roman-era skull, ...

Biologists from the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs and Portland General Electric (PGE) have successfully gathered over 250 adult steelhead at the Pelton Round Butte hydroelectric project—the ...

Biologists from the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs and Portland General Electric have collected more than 250 returning adult steelhead at the Pelton-Round Butte hydroelectric project – the ...

Cats are quicker than babies to associate a picture of a word with its corresponding picture, new research shows.

In 79 A.D., a volcanic eruption engulfed a town’s residents. They weren’t all who scientists thought, newly extracted genetic ...

When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved for ...

Martin Gardner’s Mathematical Games column in Scientific American fascinated and mystified readers for decades—and his legacy ...

John Wilkins, clinical director at the institute’s Human Longevity Laboratory, puts it like this: “When you ask how old ...

While we achieve life milestones within our own timelines, the age that is widely seen as the start of adulthood is 18 years ...