Across the animal kingdom, evolution has opened the door to a growing scientific quest to understand what a menagerie of ...

A documentary about the Twelve Tribes, a controversial religious group with Massachusetts ties, is set to air next week. Here's how to watch.

President Donald Trump appears to have endorsed eugenics during a call in to “The Brian Kilmeade Show” on Friday, telling the Fox News host he believed the country has people in it who are “bad” ...

Nobel laureate James Watson was expelled from his own laboratory after controversial racial statements that shook the scientific world.

This video investigates the true crime story of Jonathan Gerlach, who stole one hundred human remains from Mount Moriah Cemetery in Philadelphia, a historic cemetery that had already fallen into ...

In two new studies on 28,000 individuals, researchers are able to show that genetic variants in 11 regions of the human genome have a clear influence on which bacteria are in the gut and what they do ...

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Key findings presented at the Keystone Symposia on Obesity Therapeutics SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--insitro, the AI therapeutics company built on causal biology, today reported ...

The human genome is made up of about three billion pairs of DNA units called nucleotides. Olena_T via Getty Images Scientists at Google DeepMind—the company’s artificial intelligence research arm—say ...

A person’s genes play a far greater role in likely lifespan than previously thought, according to a major new study published Thursday in the journal Science. Using data from human twin studies, an ...