Genome sequencing has been used to determine how much genes influence human characteristics including height and weight, and ...

At 10 one-millionths of a meter wide, a single human cell is tiny. But something even smaller exerts an enormous influence on ...

Bumblebees can process the duration of flashes of light and use the information to decide where to look for food, a new study has found.

Animals from completely different branches of the tree of life, such as insects, worms and vertebrates, independently evolved ...

String theory unifies all the forces of nature. Forces that seem very different, such as gravity and electricity, are deeply ...