VIZAG: A team of scientists has made a significant breakthrough in the fight against methylmercury, a highly toxic pollutant ...

Genetic modification is the only credible path to restoring the blight-wracked American chestnut. Bruce Beehler is a ...

Scientists used nanoparticles to introduce genetic material into plants, enabling faster and temporary crop modifications.

Scientists have identified NOVA1, a unique human language gene that may have played a key role in the evolution of spoken ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Insects do a lot more harm than ruining picnics. Some insects spread devastating diseases, while others cause staggering economic losses in agriculture. To control some of these ...

AAP FactCheck – The infrared light emitted from smartphones cannot control human brain cells via a biological technique ...

In the mid- 80s, as the newly appointed chair of Barry Jones’s Commission for the Future (an organisation that brought ...

RFK Jr. can honor his father’s legacy by embracing progress rather than fearing it. Agriculture needs a forward-thinking advocate in government.

In a lab at Rockefeller University in New York, a mouse squeaks. But this is no ordinary squeak. It is a strange, complex ...

New research suggests a genetic variant in the NOVA1 protein may have played a key role in the emergence of human speech.

A new study shows that giving mice the human version of a gene changes their squeak, suggesting some of the genetic ...

Learn about our Editorial Policies. Several years ago, at a lab near a massive experimental farm in Guangdong Province in China, scientists prepped a whopping 4,008 genetically modified pig embryos ...