A romantic partner’s drinking habits, personality traits, and mental health can affect how much you drink, and even how strongly genetics influence your drinking behavior.

A mysterious form of plague that spread across Eurasia thousands of years before the Black Death has finally revealed a ...

Analysing the births of a Utah family over seven generations has revealed that their disproportionate number of boys could be caused by a selfish Y chromosome ...

AI is only as good as the data it learns from. Right now, research suggests 73% of health data in AI comes from North America ...

The DNA foundation model Evo 2 has been published in the journal Nature. Trained on the DNA of over 100,000 species across ...

When the two species got together tens of thousands of years ago, the hookups may have often involved a male Neanderthal and a female human, according to a new study. The findings, described February ...

Scientists may have been dramatically undercounting the number of vertebrate species on Earth. A large analysis of more than 300 studies suggests that for every recognized species of fish, bird, ...

Explore the complexities of the Nancy Guthrie case as forensic experts face challenges with mixed DNA and false leads.

Both left-handedness and breast cancer are affected by sex hormones, and some studies suggested a link. Others, however, did ...

Mandatory testing was brought in last year, with World Athletics president Sebastian Coe declaring it would "protect and promote the integrity of women’s sport" ...

Smithsonian researcher Sarah Johnson studies bison specimens to understand how the species’s genetic diversity changed after its decline ...

Having good genes might be a shortcut to a nice physique – but they're not everything. Here's what you need to know.