The genetic remnant belongs to PTERV1, an endogenous retrovirus. Its DNA became embedded in the chimpanzee genome during an ...

The immune system can attack cancer cells by punching holes in their outer membranes and sending in enzymes that kill them.

The largest genetic study of Alzheimer’s disease to date has uncovered dozens of previously unknown genetic associations, offering new insights into the disease’s complex biology. Credit: Stock A ...

Gas swirling around the center of our Galaxy. The animation shows the gas at different infrared wavelengths, demonstrating ...

Building on earlier detections, the team observed LAP1-B for more than 30 hours using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

Drone-mounted lasers helped locate three unregistered Aboriginal rock art shelters in Australia, offering communities another ...

Ancient DNA revealed that people migrated westward from central Europe around 3,000 years ago, reaching France, Britain, ...

A narrow, highly vulnerable corridor was the Deir ez-Zor Museum’s only connection to the military airport. Access to the ...

Tiny particles of iron trapped inside lunar glass may preserve evidence of the Moon’s ancient magnetic history. Scientists studying soil returned by China’s Chang’e-6 mission have identified ...

Scientists are exploring how iron powder could transform renewable energy storage and transportation while giving aging coal ...

Neutrinos are tiny, nearly massless subatomic particles that rarely interact with matter. Produced by nuclear reactions in ...

Dinosaurs may have been eating a much wider variety of fruits than scientists once believed. Fossils from a 74-million-year-old forest in New Mexico show that some flowering plants were already ...