Research from UChicago dissects how a single genetic switch helps butterflies mimic wing patterns of other species to protect ...

Saliva genes evolved faster than most body systems, revealing how food, pathogens, and environment shaped the modern human ...

Why Some People Are Born to Be Afraid Scientists are discovering that our tendency to develop certain phobias might be written in our DNA before we even encounter the things that terrify us. Evidence ...

In tropical climates, lizards are everywhere. It can be a bit wild to see, and they come in all shapes and sizes. They seem a tad superfluous in such large varieties leaving one to wonder, what ...

European cuckoos lay very different eggs depending on the host species. Genetic analyses have revealed how this adaptation is inherited without leading to speciation.

“We found that dogs were already remarkably diverse in their skull shapes and sizes more than 11,000 years ago — long before ...

The climate is warming increasingly quickly, especially in the Alps, which poses a challenge for organisms. If they do not ...

Low soil nutrients slow rye’s gene mixing, a study shows, offering new insight into how environmental stress shapes crop ...

Modern humans may indeed have wiped out Neanderthals – but not through war or murder alone. A new study suggests that when the two species interbred, a slow-acting genetic incompatibility increased ...

A vaccine that tackles the bacteria that cause up to 200 million childhood infections every year could be possible, experts say.