In 2002, evolutionary biologist Jenny Graves shared a controversial calculation. The human Y chromosome, she wrote two years ...

Small, cancer-associated DNA circles "hitchhike" on chromosomes during cell division to spread efficiently to daughter cells ...

Tatiana Schlossberg, the youngest granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, recently revealed she was diagnosed with terminal (AML) due to a rare genetic ...

They found that in women ages 20 to 32, about 1 in 5 eggs carried a chromosome error. But after 32, that number started ...

Scientists at Children's Medical Research Institute (CMRI) have made a major discovery about cancer cells. This new ...

SciShow is supported by Brilliant.org. Tiny versions of chromosomes show up in things like birds, reptiles, and amphibians.

The rules about what to wear for fine dining used to be black and white, but many places now leave it to patrons' discretion.

Here’s a quick reality check: ice cream sales go up in summer, and so do drownings. But no one thinks Ben & Jerry's is a silent killer. It’s correlation, not causation. Yet this same logical ...

Life's instructions are written in DNA, but it is the enzyme RNA polymerase II (Pol II) that reads the script, transcribing ...

It appears that we, as a culture, have collectively declared war on mankind. “If someone so much as says “my boyf–”, on social media, they’re muted,” thus opens that scathing British Vogue ...

Scientists are learning how the brain knows what’s happening throughout the body, and how that process might go awry in some ...

The advent of artificial intelligence might be just the latest stage in a guiding biological process that has produced ever more complex, mutually dependent organisms over the history of life.