It took a broke medical student, a $20 fish tank, and a radical idea that could one day turn failed organs into brand-new ...

Researchers working at Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey have recovered human skull fragments bearing deliberate cut marks, ...

We have identified the gene that, when activated, initiates the developmental programme that results in cells forming a human ...

Police in Hungary have arrested a 30-year-old man who investigators say collected human body parts that he’d gathered from ...

A new serum helped mice regrow part of a digit by triggering blastema formation, hinting at a future path toward human limb ...

Color change in animals is a response shaped by evolution. Each species has developed its own method and reason for this ...

Our genetic heritage is not a blueprint or an algorithm, as many biologists have imagined, but something else entirely.

Human development—such as roads—affects wildlife. But so does the presence of people. Dave Kenny The world is in the throes of a biodiversity crisis, with numerous animal species declining or ...

A new analysis of GPS tracking data from 37 animal species, paired with cellphone location data from across the United States, shows that not only does animal behavior change when humans modify their ...

Fakir Musafar started photographing his own piercings and body modifications in secret in his family home in 1944, when he was just 14 years old. Wearing jockstraps, head coverings, neck stretching ...

After operating in secrecy for years, a startup company called R3 Bio, in Richmond, California, suddenly shared details about its work last week—saying it had raised money to create nonsentient monkey ...

Sad sack or serious salvation? A small group of scientists is angling to replace laboratory animals with living “organ sacks” grown from human cells. R3 Bio, a billionaire-backed biotech startup, is ...