The Iñupiat people of Alaska have long said that bowhead whales live two human lifetimes. That oral knowledge turned out to ...

New research has uncovered new insights into why the most aggressive esophageal cancers are so difficult to treat and how the body's own defense systems are helping them to thrive. The study, led by ...

This Netflix’s documentary about Rupert’s warring children blurs the lines with HBO drama Succession. But, ultimately, it’s a depressing catalogue of nepotism that it’s hard to be enthused about ...

A long-term cohort study links fear of aging to faster biological wear and tear, and finds that neither Botox nor diet ...

Scientists have uncovered an enormous hidden archive of plant DNA that has endured for more than 400 million years. By comparing hundreds of plant genomes, researchers identified more than 2.3 million ...

A study published in the journal Science reveals how jumping fragments of human DNA, a type of genetic parasite, destabilize the cancer genome. Unstable genomes are a fertile playground for cancer ...

More than 2.3 million ancient genetic switches discovered in plants reveal how key growth controls endured 300 million years ...

"It is an exhausting if exhaustive rundown of all things Murdoch, with the siblings' manoeuvrings often the least interesting part" ...

You've heard of deep space, but what about deep time? Today's geneticists and evolutionary biologists can extend their investigations further back in ...

Researchers uncovered millions of ancient plant DNA switches—some older than flowering plants themselves—revealing a hidden evolutionary blueprint stretching back 400 million years. Most people have ...

Most people are familiar with the idea of deep space, but scientists also study something called deep time. Advances in genetics now allow researchers ...

New Delhi: At one time it was believed that DNA mutations were the sole cause for cancer. It is now recognised that cancer is a multifactorial disease influenced by genetics, gene regulation, ...