As NASA plans for long-term human missions beyond Earth, one question keeps resurfacing: how do you sustain life in places ...

New research shows potatoes evolved from tomatoes through ancient plant mixing that created underground tubers.

Scientists expected Chernobyl to be a dead zone — but instead, wolves, plants, and other life are thriving in radiation. Even stranger? These organisms are showing traits they shouldn’t have — faster ...

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has ...

Although it also performs some functions in men, estrogen, the main female sex hormone, is involved in a myriad of processes, ...

Metabolism quietly governs every living body. It shapes how organisms grow, reproduce, heal, and age. Because metabolism links closely to body size, temperature, and diet, it also sets limits on how ...

Researchers at the CNIO show that oestrogens regulate gene expression by changing DNA supercoiling. Hormone-activated ...

Fiddler crabs in Colombian mangroves swallow microplastics, concentrate them, and break them into smaller fragments during ...

As more companies market their tests and related products, gastroenterologists are faced with trying to incorporate a technology that’s not quite ready for the clinic.

The original Star Trek series secretly used sounds of people kissing to create noises for one of its many alien monsters.

Zebra mussels were recently found at Des Moines Water Works. What to know about the invasive species and why the Iowa DNR isn't worried.

In 1888, researchers aboard the R/V Albatross began the world’s first concentrated marine research expeditions off California ...