Tiny grains of dust from asteroid Bennu are reshaping how scientists think life’s ingredients formed in space.

Researchers have been asking this question for more than 70 years, over a decade before people even made it to space. This week in 1949, the world’s first Department of Space Medicine launched at the ...

How did the complexity of many organisms living today evolve from the simpler body plans of their ancestors? This is a central question in biology. Take our hands, for example: Every time we type a ...

The power of artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced computing has made it possible to design genetic sequences encoding ...

Which infections have you already come into contact with? In the future, a simple blood test may be all you need to answer that question. Researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität ...

Over several decades, the judiciary has shifted from a neutral arbiter to the most influential and least accountable branch ...

In cow-calf systems, many of the factors that determine productivity, fertility and longevity are set long before a replacement heifer ever enters the breeding pasture. The biological foundation of ...

A bitter taste has always been considered a warning signal, devoted to protecting us from ingesting potentially harmful ...

To distinguish between the top and the bottom side of our limbs, nature “redeployed” ancient genes from the midline fins of fish. This is the ...

Being financially independent sounds ideal — but without family backup, the stress, risk and long-term consequences can ...

Solar panels and wind turbines increasingly dot the landscape, but the future of clean energy may well depend on how smoothly ...

India’s new alcohol regulations include mandatory labelling and expanded category definitions, signalling greater consumer ...