People have been wrongly jailed for forensic failures. Scientists are working to improve police lineups, fingerprinting and even DNA analysis.

Lacrymaria olor, a single-celled protist, can extend its neck up to 30 times its body length. These before-and-after images show how microtubules curve around the organism’s body to create curved ...

Horse power may have revved up about four millennia ago.

Cats are getting — and dying of — bird flu. That’s sparking worries about the risk that the ongoing outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza poses for these feline furballs and ...

May saw the strongest auroras in recent memory. As the sun gets more active, those light shows may be a preview of what’s to come until at least 2026.

A series of explosions from the Hawaiian volcano Kilauea in 2018 may have been triggered by a never-before-seen style of eruption — one that’s reminiscent of a stomp rocket toy.

The samples, which will be returned to Earth in late June, could help researchers figure out why the moon’s two sides are so starkly different.

Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Thomas Cech’s new book is part ode to RNA and part detailed history of the scientists who’ve studied it.

Oxygen ratios in ancient zircon crystals suggest that the planet’s water cycle got started hundreds of millions of years earlier than thought.

Genes from animals can be combined with genes from bacteria and be put in a bacterium so that the animal genes can replicate in the bacterium…. The technique consists of constructing DNA “chimeras” — ...

Even for the children who get treatment, malnutrition can lead to a lifetime of consequences. Those include a high chance of dying in the year after recovery, stunted growth and a reduced ability to ...