Jonathan, an Aldabra giant tortoise, is about 194 years old and the oldest land animal alive today. Discoveries about his ...

People around the world are still fighting against this pathogen, there is currently an outbreak of sheeppox in Greece, ...

The DNA in our cells wraps around proteins called histones to form nucleosomes, which organize into chromatin. This ...

Decades of conservation have helped Malaysia's green turtles recover, but tight budgets, fuel costs and poachers threaten progress As dawn breaks on Mataking Island off Sabah's east coast, a tiny ...

One of the unresolved mysteries about the history of the Americas is when the first people arrived. Despite extensive debate ...

Hawaiʻi and Rapa Nui, the island also known as Easter Island, are two of the farthest-flung places Polynesian voyagers ever settled. Yet their people are each other’s closest genetic relatives among ...

A record player-like microscope and computer simulations solve a longtime mystery, showing that metal ions bridge DNA strands that would normally repel.

BURGLARS HAVE been steadily running out of things they can safely leave behind at a crime scene. First came footprints, then ...