It's tricky to make an exact copy of yourself. Or at least it is for cells undergoing mitosis, where cells replicate everything inside of them, including their neatly packaged DNA, then split in half.

How animals use Earth’s magnetic field to navigate is one of biology’s biggest unsolved mysteries. This study proposes a ...

Apple TV's generational space opera has long been a surprisingly grounded affair. That could all be about to change.

At its core, aging is a dysfunction in the way DNA is read and implemented in cells, says David Sinclair, PhD. And he’s basically putting all his money on figuring out how to leverage our knowledge of ...

In evolutionary biology, all life on Earth is theoretically part of a single phylogenetic tree, indicating common ancestry.

Many new parents describe the mental fog of early parenthood as 'baby brain'. But Australian researchers found a surprise.

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new ...

Scientists have discovered that the female immune system is better at fighting infections, but it increases the risk of lupus.