The deadly H5 form of bird flu that has cut a swath across North America and elsewhere for the past five years has finally been detected in Australia. So what’s stopping this virus turning into the ...

The human-made cells show many hallmarks of life, but they can't make all their necessary internal structures or divide for ...

"We’re hoping we’re really starting the true age of bioeconomy, enabling technology that will let people engineer biology." ...

Cave art from Lascaux Cave, in the Dordogne region of France. It contains over 600 stunning parietal wall paintings and 1,500 engravings created by Upper Paleolithic humans roughly 17,000 years ago.

Areas of East Tennessee are infested with ticks that can carry diseases. Here’s how to avoid them and what to do if you get ...

In their new book, UC Berkeley sociologists G. Cristina Mora and Tianna S. Paschel set out to understand how we make sense of the difference between the California we see in the movies and the ...

The invasive tick species can reproduce without mating, allowing for rapid population growth. Local agricultural officials ...

Honey bees get all the credit, but thousands of other bee species actually sustain human health and global agriculture.

Recently, a friend told me over coffee about some disheartening feedback she had received. “They said it was good,” she said, “but that it read like it was written by AI.” Knowing her, I understood ...

Landing humans on Mars could teach us whether life ever existed beyond Earth, how planets change over time, and how humans can live on other worlds. By studying Mars up close, astronauts could answer ...

Like every other living thing on Earth - past, present, and indeed future - we’re products of evolution. This might be hard for some to believe, but our evolutionary history has been dictated by the ...