Scientists have identified a new gentoo penguin species on the remote Kerguelen Islands, revealing four distinct species and raising fresh concerns over climate change.

The cat, called Tilcayo by local communities, is part of a group called tiger cats found across much of South America ...

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VermontBiz Maya Suarez spends any spare time she has between her two majors, biology and math, in the Molecular Biology research laboratory on Vermont State University’s Johnson campus, where she is ...

New Delhi, Sep 22 (PTI) Newborn girls might spend more time looking at a human face, while infant boys might prefer looking at objects, a new study has found ...

A Stanford Medicine study has challenged the traditional understanding of brain development, finding that the forebrain and hindbrain arise from separate progenitor cells. Researchers traced this ...

LED lights could be "the new asbestos" for people exposed hours on end, leading scientists have warned. They fear prolonged exposure to LED lighting in homes, schools, offices or hospitals could raise ...

What these turtles do is considerably more complex than the phrase “breathing through their rear ends” suggests. They move ...

Cambridge scientists have shown that girls and boys show differences in what they pay attention to, even at birth.

Two new federally funded studies offer detailed views of proteins repairing broken DNA inside tightly packed chromatin, and of the molecular toolkit they assemble at a break, with potential implicatio ...

A randomized controlled trial suggests that providing low-income mothers with unconditional monthly cash gifts slows their children's cellular aging. The findings highlight how early antipoverty ...