The Atlas blue butterfly, with a record-breaking 229 pairs of chromosomes, is helping scientists unravel mysteries of ...

Scientists have confirmed that the Atlas blue butterfly carries the most chromosomes of any animal, with 229 pairs. Unlike duplication, its chromosomes split apart, reshaping its genome in surprising ...

Basic research, often termed fundamental, frontier, blue-sky, curiosity-driven—or even useless—is the pursuit of knowledge ...

Would-be teachers in Mississippi are learning that while their college courses prepare them to run a classroom, they don't necessarily prepare them to pass required teacher licensing exams.

At least nearly a dozen LifeWise Academy Ohio programs have taken public school students on field trips to the Creation Museum and Ark Encounter in Kentucky, which claims humans lived alongside ...

Scientists found that the Turkana people of northern Kenya evolved special genes within 5,000-8,000 years to help them ...

(THE CONVERSATION) From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of glass and bright white structures. Despite being just ...

In fatal genetic diseases like Huntington's and spinocerebellar ataxia, proteins develop long stretches of repeating letters ...

Gaza War Highlights News Updates: Medical charity Doctors without Borders suspends Gaza City activity due to Israeli offensive President Zelenskyy says Ukraine recorded violations of its airspace by ...

In the den of his small apartment in Stockton, 56-year-old Rex Dangerfield sits at a table. The walls are bare, and the space ...

Psychologist Leor Zmigrod analyzes in 'The Ideological Brain' the hidden mechanisms that shape our political, social, and ...

While it might seem odd for a conservation biologist to teach about mental health, Carolyn Kurle feels right at home. A ...