A remarkable scientific discovery forced researchers to confront difficult questions about human behavior. After studying a family with generations of violent offenders, scientists uncovered a genetic ...

In a study published in Nature Communications, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have mapped key steps in the assembly of the mitochondrial ribosome, offering new clues to how defects in this ...

For years, pest control professionals throughout the Northeast have reported a troubling pattern. In some neighborhoods, rodents seemed increasingly difficult to eliminate, even when standard control ...

Aisha Legge had every reason to hesitate. The 53-year-old HR leader, who moved to Abu Dhabi from the UK thirty years ago, had a family history that frightened her. Breast cancer on her mother's side.

In the 1960s, Kimura’s neutral theory revolutionized molecular biology by arguing most DNA changes are random, not adaptive. A new study finds beneficial mutations are far more common than Kimura’s ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Guardians are set to commemorate Lou Gehrig Day prior to tonight’s game against the Yankees, and Stow resident Joe Schen will take the field carrying far more than a baseball ...

Rejoice, LinkedIn game players. There's a new game available, and it's going to test your word puzzle and logic skills. The career-based website released its eighth game on Tuesday morning, ...

Geneticists argue that every blue-eyed person alive today may be connected by a single ancient DNA change that dimmed pigment in the human iris. Research on a regulatory element inside the HERC2 gene ...

Ever since humans began building, they’ve been building up. Throughout the millennia, our constructions have reached higher and higher into the sky, spurred by various motivations: religion, democracy ...