Space looks dark and cold from Earth, but sunlight beyond our atmosphere is harsh in ways most of us never experience.

New research finds that indoor tanning raises the risk of developing melanoma by nearly threefold, and alters your DNA.

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

Although it also performs some functions in men, estrogen, the main female sex hormone, is involved in a myriad of processes, ...

Popular genetics tests can’t tell you much about your dog’s personality, according to a recent study. A team of geneticists recently found no connection between simple genetic variants and behavioral ...

The Ocean Genome Legacy Center and other biorepositories like it are increasingly crucial to climate change research as ...

Thankfully, we can still turn to our bookshelves — and podcasts — to ground us. We tapped science doyenne Alie Ward, the host ...

Researchers at the CNIO show that oestrogens regulate gene expression by changing DNA supercoiling. Hormone-activated ...

It's a common storytelling trope: the stubborn foe who is eventually revealed to be a much-needed friend. Biology has its own ...

As the Arctic warms and sea ice disappears, polar bears are being pushed into conditions they have never faced before. Their ...

Estrogens, the main female sex hormone, although they also perform some functions in men, are involved in a myriad of ...