At first glance, it looks like the start of a human pregnancy: A ball-shaped embryo presses gently into the receptive lining ...

New research has mapped the cell types that specialise to form reproductive organs in both sexes, identifying key genes and signals that drive this process. The findings offer important insights into ...

The Dean of Undergraduate Education sat down with Fifteen Minutes to discuss Harvard-Yale relations, Sidechat, and Harvard’s grading system. By Samuel A. Church and Cam N. Srivastava Harvard College’s ...

An international research team has identified a human protein, ANKLE1, as the first DNA-cutting enzyme (nuclease) in mammals capable of detecting and responding to physical tension in DNA. This ...

Humans and most other animals are known to be strongly driven by expected rewards or adverse consequences. The process of acquiring new skills or adjusting behaviors in response to positive outcomes ...

A Russian cosmonaut was removed from the upcoming NASA and SpaceX Crew-12 mission. Russia's space agency did not give a reason, but reports suggest a national security violation. The Crew-12 mission ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Activist and educator Loretta Ross didn’t know she was helping to birth a movement.

Scientists have found that human hair growth does not grow by being pushed out of the root; it's actually pulled upward by a force associated with a hidden network of moving cells. The findings ...

Human gene maps contain major blind spots because they were built largely from the DNA sequences of people with European ancestry, according to a study published in Nature Communications. Researchers ...

A new radiation therapy platform is set to enter veterinary medicine in early 2026. The new system, a robotically accelerated conformal beam radiation platform named Sirius, will make its debut at the ...

PHOENIX — The number of Arizona schools that received an “F” letter grade doubled since last year, but that could open the door for state improvement funding. Arizona State Board of Education Director ...

NEW YORK, Nov 7 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Turn an artificial-intelligence bot into a trader and it acts all too human. Over a two-week span, six frontier models were seeded with $10,000 apiece to ...