T he University of Virginia’s Jefferson Literary and Debating Society admitted its first woman in 1972 after two members ...

Membership: The organization says it comprises some 40,000 members worldwide, with highest concentrations in France, Canada and Japan. Outside researchers have suggested the membership may be smaller.

That enabled Gurdon in 1962 to clone the first vertebrate in his lab, an African clawed frog, now considered an invasive species in most of Europe, China, and the U.S. This was interesting mainly to ...

Biotechnology has emerged as a driving force in transforming healthcare. Over the past few decades, the integration of biology with advanced technology has led to significant breakthroughs. These ...

Nothing strikes fear in the hearts of humans like a shark fin in shallow water. They are often portrayed as silent killers, ...

It ain't easy being a Superman villain, but these 15 evil-doers have managed to give the Man of Steel a run for his money at ...

At Memorial Day parties last weekend, I saw many faces I’d known from a half-century ago when I first moved here. All were in ...

Also known as selective breeding, artificial selection is the human-guided cousin of evolution by natural selection. Instead ...

Chinese researchers have developed a technology that sheds light on how the three-dimensional (3D) organization of plant ...

Different industries have different motivations to probe the enormous resource that is uncultivated microbial diversity. Currently, there is a global political drive to promote white (industrial ...

For example, Marcus, a feline resident of Best Friends Animal Society, has Manx syndrome. Cats with this condition carry the gene for shortened tails, but sometimes the gene affects a cat's entire ...

But other physical actions and routines appear to have a genetic basis as well. Most reared-apart identical twins in the MISTRA group, for example, positioned their bodies the same way while ...