Study reshapes view of how a common leukemia begins and could point to new therapeutic strategies targeting a common weakness.

Genomic research has found the endangered hoiho is made up of three distinct subspecies, a discovery that may help guard ...

In 1943, during World War II, the U.S. Navy allegedly conducted a secret experiment in Philadelphia Harbor. The goal: to make a warship invisible to radar — and possibly to the naked eye. Witnesses ...

Once a sprawling orchid sanctuary on Japan’s Izu Peninsula, the Dogashima Orchid Center opened in 1968. This botanical gem featured 13 ha of greenhouses, nine exhibition halls, and over 10,000 orchid ...

He showed that specialized cells retain the genes to form an organism.

In a pop-up city off the coast of Honduras, longevity startups are trying to fast-track anti-aging drugs. Is this the future ...

The U.S. government is divesting from mRNA vaccines, but will other uses of the technology be spared? In a time of ...

They are weird, bald, subterranean rodents that look like sausages with teeth, and they have just revealed a genetic secret to long life. A new study of the bizarre naked mole rat shows that the ...

Chinese astronauts aboard Tiangong station witnessed a match flame transform into a blue sphere in microgravity. Unlike Earth ...

Over millennia, people have selectively bred the sugarcane plant to optimize the crop’s taste, yield and ease of cultivation.