With the help of cat owners, a new project investigates cats’ biology and aims to link some of their behaviors to their genes ...

By the Viking Age, cats with a new genetic haplogroup, IV-D, show up in York, Orkney, and even Galway, Ireland. The Norse ...

A new study by Prof. Ariel Chipman of The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ...

Our human species emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago but scientists don't yet have a clear picture of what kind of ...

As Caterpillar celebrates is 100th anniversary, CIO Jamie Engstrom is preparing the company to thrive in its second century with better use of data and AI.

The virus' jump to other types of mammals comes as the Trump White House has slashed jobs and budgets at the Centers for ...

Leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal's maiden six-wicket for India as the hosts beat England by 75 runs in the third and final Twenty20 International ...

Human beings don’t have a thick coat of fur like many other mammals do. Scientists think it has to do with something else ...

It turns out that we animals who crave sugar have a very important historical biological need for it: Sugar means calories.

Every fossil find and genetic study tweaks what we think we know about the timeline or the circumstances under which ...

This is simply the truth about everyday things, like how to drive a car, buy groceries, and do one’s job. We know other basic things that are true, such as when we are awake as opposed to being asleep ...

The results, published this week in Nature magazine by an international team of 123 researchers, help deepen people's understanding of human evolution and protect endangered ape populations.