For years, many families have believed that a child’s intelligence is inherited from the mother, a claim often repeated in ...

An evolutionary "trap" has haunted crested and marbled newts for 25 million years: Leiden researchers have uncovered a mysterious DNA error that should not be able to arise—yet persists all the same.

For every man older than 110, there are nine women. Before she died in August at age 117, supercentenarian Maria Branyas — the world’s oldest verified person — credited her bonus years not to any high ...

Popular genetics tests can’t tell you much about your dog’s personality, according to a recent study. A team of geneticists ...

Scientists trace Leonardo da Vinci's DNA through his descendants and family tombs to reconstruct his genetic code.

It's not often that a pathologist gets to make a diagnosis that works for the patient by preventing treatment from occurring.

It's not often that a pathologist gets to make a diagnosis that works for the patient by preventing treatment from occurring.

Researchers from the University of Adelaide's Davies Livestock Research Center (DLRC) have described the most complete cattle ...

Orange cats have always stood out in the living room, but new research shows they also stand apart in the mammal family tree.

This week, Svante Pääbo, Nobel Prize winner for sequencing the Neanderthal genome, is visiting Estonia. In an interview with ...