With the help of cat owners, a new project investigates cats’ biology and aims to link some of their behaviors to their genes ...

Without being able to get into the heads of animals, it’s hard to say for sure. But instances of pig painters, whale crooners ...

A variant of the bird flu virus, collected in 2016 and no longer in circulation, was just one mutation away from being able ...

Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the time of ...

Fallout 76 has received a new update that brings a new event, balance changes, bug fixes, and more to the multiplayer ...

Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the time of ...

Challenge Events refreshed, Spring event data, and a host of gameplay improvements are in Fallout 76's update 2.05 download.

Almost 4,000 years ago, an unknown scholar in ancient Mesopotamia wrote the first known book on a series of clay tablets. The ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has canceled its plans to help Texas schools stop the rapid spread of measles. The decision came after some CDC staff involved in this ...

A mutation is any detectable and heritable change in nucleotide sequence that causes a change in genotype and is transmitted to daughter cells and succeeding generations. Tools for diversifying ...

Two independent research teams have finally determined what causes cats to be orange. It turns out that a specific gene is ...

Plant genetics deals with heredity in plants, specifically mechanisms of hereditary transmission and variation of inherited characteristics. Plant genetics differs from animal genetics in a number ...