The US Secretary of Health and Human Services insists he will soon announce the "cause" of autism, but setting a fixed ...

Synthetic Human Genome Project aims to develop methods allowing scientists to not only read an entire DNA molecule but also ...

Excerpts from X-Men '97" The Art and Making of the Animated Series features character designs for Magneto, Beast and Jubilee.

“The art of the geneticist ... find new benefits of the egg for human nutrition.” Given that 3 billion people cannot currently afford a healthy diet, eggs provide a scalable and economical solution.

If developers and policymakers don’t change course, Americans may reject AI before it ever delivers on its most significant ...

But the research topic is, for obvious reasons, controversial. Scientists have largely steered clear of trying to create full ...

Biological science has made such astonishing leaps in the last few decades, such as precise gene editing, that scientists are ...

The baby brain is a great gateway for language to be transferred from brain to brain. All the main connections in the brain ...

What was life like some 8,000–9,000 years ago for the people on the East Mound at Çatalhöyük, an important Neolithic ...

Work has begun on something once-unthinkable: creating human DNA from scratch. Artificial DNA has long been an ethical ...

Art and literature hint at past people’s psyches. Now computers can identify patterns in those cognitive fossils, but human expertise remains crucial.

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of ...