Scientists have sequenced the Atlas blue butterfly, confirming it has 229 chromosome pairs—the most of any animal. The discovery offers new insights into evolution, conservation, and cancer research ...

From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of ...

Aquaglyceroporin Aqp10, a protein channel for water and glycerol, selectively permeates urea and boric acid due to its unique ...

A new study from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences sheds ...

Why did life on Earth choose alpha amino acids as the building blocks of proteins? A new study suggests the answer lies in the stability of their ...

Research shows that diet timing and macronutrient balance impact reproductive health, aging, and disease susceptibility.

Scientists are exploring how RNA might have jump-started life four billion years ago and how it's now advancing drug ...

Wild chimpanzees regularly consume fermented fruits, ingesting significant alcohol daily, equivalent to a human drinking over ...

A new study has observed that chimpanzees regularly eat fermented fruit together, suggesting that alcohol consumption is more ...

Researchers from Harvard’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology found that educated children perform better on psychological tests measuring executive functioning abilities, challenging the ...

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

The recreated skull's features suggest that the fossil belonged to the same lineage as a striking specimen called "Dragon Man ...