The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

A rare North American bumble bee may have been on a path toward extinction long before modern human impacts, suggesting that ...

In a new study, a team of biologists found that participants' breathing patterns were so unique that they could identify them with almost perfect accuracy. But not only that; the study also showed ...

Scientists claim to have evidence that they discovered non-human “alien DNA” in people here on Earth and it may have been ...

Shark attacks on swimmers are incredibly rare, averaging only around 64 each year. And in the grand recorded history of these ...

WOODSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Nestled in forests around the world, a gentle army of giant wooden trolls want to show humans how to live better without destroying the planet. The Danish recycle artist Thomas ...

In my first reflection on AI and how to live well with AI technology I concluded, based on the recent lecture by Stephen Fry and the new book Nexus by Yuval Harari, that there was a manifest need for ...

Ribosomal RNA (rRNA) is a type of molecule and a key building block of the ribosome, the cell's protein-making machinery. rRNA accounts for much of the RNA in a cell, and it's crucial for life.