Claims that genes determine intelligence, health and social outcomes are reappearing. But modern science shows environment and opportunity matter far more than genes.

One of the most widely accepted models for how cells remember their identity may be incorrect. This is shown in a new study ...

The scientist leading a push to resurrect the thylacine expects to make a major breakthrough in the ambitious project this year, saying a complete genome could hold the key to ‘de-extincting’ the ...

A study has traced thousands of conserved regulatory elements back 300 million years, revealing deep principles of plant genome evolution—a discovery that could pave the way for more precise ...

Against this backdrop, a new large-scale research work devoted to the analysis of the fundamental structure of modern physics has been published. Researcher Sergey G. Kolesnyak has presented a ...

Archer Anson was a little over four months old when his mum, Emma, noticed a strange twitching in his hand. “I thought: ‘This is really odd,’ ” Ms Anson, 33, says. “Then a couple of hours later, on ...

The compounding power of Moore's Law allowed for the internet the smartphone and AI. Now Ian says it's being applied to the ...

IF TIMING IS everything, then Thomas Hartung picked a bad moment to make his move. Dr Hartung is an environmental toxicologist at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, who has spent his career ...

Scientists from around the world are uniting behind the Human Exposome Project, an ambitious effort to map the environmental and chemical exposures that shape human health. Credit: Steve Johnson, ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There is still a great deal unknown about RNA and its modifications. Christoph Burgstedt/Science Photo Library via Getty Images ...

Influenza presents a global health challenge due to its rapidly changing RNA genome. These mutations can result in serious health and economic consequences. To effectively manage outbreaks, reliable ...