“Redheads are not going extinct,” says Katerina Zorina-Lichtenwalter, a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Behavioral ...

Despite the vast numbers of animal species already identified, the natural world is still capable of springing a few ...

Red-backed shrikes fly thousands of kilometers to reach Africa—and they do so with astonishing precision. Aided by new ...

Researchers from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC) report that most genetic influences on mental illness are shared across diagnostic categories, revealing a more interconnected biological ...

Many psychiatric disorders share symptoms and most people who receive a psychiatric diagnosis will be diagnosed with more ...

When Meenu Hodiwalla gave birth to her son almost three decades ago, she imagined the early days unfolding like they do for ...

Researchers at Duke University used CRISPR technologies to discover previously unannotated stretches of DNA in the 'dark genome' that are responsible ...

Spiders are generally not hostile towards human beings and only attack in self-defense; however, spiders are becoming more ...

A classic computer game series may hold one of the most important lessons for the world’s newest, most controversial ...

Long before genetic testing and genome browsers, a small child was laid to rest in a shallow grave on the slopes of Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel. Today that youngster, known as Skhūl, is at the ...