Scientists discovered that making a very small change to female mice's DNA caused them to develop male reproductive organs.

A genomic analysis of dozens of ancient Korean skeletons revealed a special "sacrificial caste" of people. About 1,500 years ...

Amid drought and heat waves, April's national wildfire forecast shows that nearly the entire Western U.S. will face an ...

A new map of the "maternal-fetal interface" reveals a new type of cell, as well as the types of cells most likely to be ...

NASA is gearing up to send astronauts back to the lunar environment for the first time in nearly 55 years. We've broken the ...

It's a running joke that a cure for type 1 diabetes is only five years away and has been for 50 years, but new stem cell trials and immune drugs hint that we're closer than ever to a functional cure ...

CERN scientists transported antimatter by truck for the first time, enabling ultraprecise studies that could reveal why ...

Doctors reported a highly unusual case of parasitic fly infection in a woman in Greece. When you purchase through links on ...

Scholars have proposed a wide variety of explanations, including a volcanic eruption, earthquakes, climate change, the ...

Once described by a 16th-century anatomist as the "shameful member," the clitoris has historically been ignored in research ...

Among the fossil finds were bilateral worm-like animals that may have anchored themselves to the seafloor, early comb jellies ...

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria may have an Achilles' heel: a unique sugar molecule found only on the outsides of bacterial ...