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

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

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

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

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

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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 ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

Oestrogens, the main female sex hormone, although they also perform some functions in men, are involved in a myriad of processes, which is why the ...