Modern agriculture's selective breeding of crops for particular requirements may now be a roadblock to further gains, ...

In the years after the 2010 BP oil spill, the number of fish in the deeper parts of the Gulf of Mexico dramatically declined.

The bones of a Neanderthal from a cave in Iraq's Kurdistan region are offering evidence of both violence and compassion in ...

Eight new rice varieties developed using nuclear techniques are helping Burkina Faso grow more of its own rice and strengthen ...

The first settlers of Hawaii were the most capable sailors of their time, crossing 7,000 kilometers of open ocean to reach ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have found a new clue that may ...

Oryza rufipogon is an ordinary-looking wild grass found today in parts of China, India and Southeast Asia. More than 8,000 ...

Antarctica is home to organisms that have evolved to survive months of darkness, frigid temperatures and some of the harshest ...

Much of what scientists know about how genetic differences affect health comes from studying populations outside Africa. This matters because genetic information is increasingly being used to ...

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The mysterious pain disorder fibromyalgia may have some surprising genetic roots. An analysis of 2.5 million people suggests fibromyalgia is neurological in nature, scientists report July 28 in Nature ...