The story of human evolution in ancient past is said to be written in our modern bodies. In his book “Descent of Man,” Charles Darwin talks about vestigial structures. A vestigial structure is a body ...
Meet a blind girl on a mission to save the world, fasten your seatbelts for the ride of a lifetime, wrap up warm for a ...
A combination of human pedigree analysis and fruit fly genetics has identified a gene variant that appears to prevent PIGA-CDG, a rare but serious seizure disorder. The findings could ultimately lead ...
A collision on a ski slope led to Liz Healy being diagnosed with two rare cancers. Two months later, she underwent a 10-hour ...
NASA has released stunning images of mysterious colorful clouds drifting in the sky over Mars. Captured by NASA's Curiosity rover on January 17 over the course of 16 minutes, the images show ...
A surprising new study suggests that COVID-19 may not have originated from bats or pangolins, but rather from a rare fusion ...
Arizona has added a new species of bat to the list of night-flying creatures in the state. Citizen scientists and DNA ...
The result is that many modern breeds suffer from ailments that dog lovers never would have deliberately selected for.
The membrane of the cell protects the cell from its surroundings and divides it into internal compartments; it is responsible for metabolism, energy production, communication with other cells and much ...
A dog who ran toward the sea after being spooked by a noise was rescued by a lifeboat crew in Porthcawl, Wales. The ...
Could a novel approach to genetic studies give us a clearer picture of how evolutionary adaptations occur? That's what the ...