Scientists studying genetic data from over a quarter million people have uncovered new clues about what controls how fast the gut moves. They identified multiple DNA regions linked to bowel movement ...

Climate change has a wide range of effects on wildlife. It affects seasonal migration, reproduction times, body size and mass ...

Plant scientists have provided a new solution to an old debate on why species hybrids can be more vigorous than their parents. The researchers found a type of genetic "noise" caused by a surprising ...

A large-scale population genomic study has shed new light on the evolutionary and domestication history of the button ...

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The UK's first "teacherless" GCSE class, using artificial intelligence instead of human teachers, is about to start lessons. David Game College, a private school in London, opens its new teacherless ...

New research finds that retinal diseases thought to map one-to-one to genetic mutations are more complicated than that.

Lower jaws (mandibles) from North Africa, illustrating variation among fossil hominins and modern humans. The fossils shown are Tighennif 3 from Algeria (upper left), ThI-GH-10717 from Thomas Quarry ...

Several measurement techniques used in the life sciences gather data for many more variables per sample than the typical number of samples assayed. For instance, DNA microarrays and mass spectrometers ...

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