Microbiologists have long known that ancient, inactive viruses known as cryptic prophages can insert their genetic material into bacterial DNA. These genetic fragments allow bacteria to use ...

Scientists photograph the elusive ginkgo-toothed beaked whale, the source of the BW43 echolocation pulse, for the first time.

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India today’s first decade began with the Emergency and ended with an assassination and a massacre. If the law of averages ...

There are no established treatment options for patients with meningioma recurring after surgery and radiotherapy.

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld using probabilistic genotyping software program for DNA evidence in a criminal case.

A thorough health evaluation of one of the world's oldest people, Maria Branyas, suggests that one of the reasons she lived ...

Kris Stewart loved her cat Bear. A lot. So much so that when he died in 2022, she raced to store his DNA. “He was a very ...

They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...