A few weeks back, Shout Studios released a brand new 4K collectors’ edition of Cloud Atlas, and io9 was provided a copy. It ...

Molecular biosciences Prof. Heather Pinkett has been the only Black faculty member in her department for the past 12 years.

Obscured Releasing, a new indie distributor, has acquired 'Starman,' a documentary about best-selling author and space ...

We explore the idea of 'longevity genes' and whether being blessed with a FOXO3 variant which will translate to a longer and ...

When scientists sequenced the DNA of a woman who lived to 117, they were not just cataloging the quirks of an extraordinary ...

Jim’s Courage’ shares the story of late San Diego resident Jim Dunn and his role in research aiming to find a cure for HIV ...

For decades, military pilots, radar operators and ordinary citizens have reported strange objects darting through the skies, often dismissed by officials or buried under classification. Despite ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

Around 45 percent of human DNA is made up of transposable elements, or TEs—genetic leftovers from now-extinct viruses that scientists once believed to be “junk DNA.” But that view is changing, and a ...

An international team of scientists has decoded some of the most stubborn, overlooked regions of the human genome using complete sequences from 65 individuals across diverse ancestries. This milestone ...