Police in Xilinhot, Inner Mongolia, sparked controversy after announcing plans to collect men's blood samples to update an ...

Depending on the setting, the ability of a crucial bacterium in biotechnology—Agrobacterium tumefaciens—to transfer its DNA ...

An astoundingly detailed weevil on a single grain of rice takes first place in 2025's Nikon Small World photomicrography ...

The Atlas blue butterfly, with a record-breaking 229 pairs of chromosomes, is helping scientists unravel mysteries of ...

Scientists have confirmed that the Atlas blue butterfly carries the most chromosomes of any animal, with 229 pairs. Unlike duplication, its chromosomes split apart, reshaping its genome in surprising ...

A pretty sad day in the day of newspaper reporting. A recent letter said that visible gender is the final word on the matter.

The tiny Atlas blue butterfly, also known as Polyommatus atlantica, has been genetically confirmed as having the highest ...

The surprising reasons behind this biological phenomenon have been revealed thanks to the largest study of its kind to date.

The researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky argues that we should be very afraid of artificial intelligence’s existential risks.

One gene causes one trait or a specific illness. When doctors use genetics, it's usually to try to identify a disease-causing ...

The study explores the evolutionary origins of the lifespan difference between women and men. Across the globe, women generally outlive men, a pattern that has persisted throughout history and in ...

Your DNA contains millions of genetic variants that interact with each other in ways that affect whether diseases such as ...