Nature has managed to miniaturize the exact same vital organs and cram them into a less than one-centimeter-long frog. By Andrew Paul Published Sep 9, 2024 3:21 PM EDT Get the Popular Science daily ...

When a nuclear disaster empties a landscape of people, nature doesn’t politely wait for instructions. It moves in. After the ...

Learn how cats and humans can share key cancer mutations — and why those similarities could guide future treatment research.

The study provides a comprehensive behavioral dataset of Drosophila melanogaster, categorized by genetic background, sex, and social context (isolated or in groups). Beyond enabling detailed analyses ...

Understanding biological relationships is often critical when studying animal populations. Researchers have now developed a transformative approach that identifies stretches of DNA that two ...

Domesticated animals play a prominent role in our society, with two-thirds of American families enjoying the companionship of pets and many others relying on animal products for their nutritional ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two-thirds of animal and plant populations are declining in genetic diversity, which makes it harder to adapt to environmental changes, according to research published Wednesday.

It has been nearly five years since COVID-19 began sweeping across the world. Now, after extensive genetic tracking, scientists say they have discovered the definitive origin of the virus. The ...

Nature gave the world the dire wolf 2.6 million years ago, and then, through the hard hand of extinction, took it away—some 10,000 to 13,000 years ago when the last of the species died out. Now, the ...

A convoy of vehicles carrying investigators from the World Health Organization enters the interior of the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China, early in the COVID-19 pandemic. (Ng Han Guan / ...

Over the past century, worldwide consumption of food-animal products such as meat, milk, and eggs has steadily grown due to increases in global population and per capita income that fuel demand for ...