A new study of German twins suggests that the strong connection between a young adult's cognitive ability and their future socioeconomic status is largely driven by their genes, rather than shared ...

Treatments for cardiovascular conditions have never been better. Knowledge about how to improve heart health has steadily improved. Yet, in the U.S., progress in cardiovascular health has largely ...

Stop falling for misleading headlines. Understand the difference between correlation and causation, and learn how researchers prove real scientific facts.

EADaily, March 2nd, 2026. Tomsk geneticists summed up the results of a large-scale three-year study covering the Siberian ...

Scientists have developed an AI system that analyzes complex gene-expression signatures to estimate the likelihood that a tumor will spread.

Researchers at Fred Hutch Cancer Center are testing whether a collaborative AI research platform can accelerate the pace of ...

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...

Letters: Guardian readers respond to the government’s education white paper setting out changes to provision for children with special educational needs and disabilities ...

Farm animal advocates have, over the last few decades, successfully drawn public attention to and meaningfully reduced the ...

Explore the legacy of Craig the elephant, a symbol of wildlife conservation, and the challenges of emotional attachment to iconic animals.

Florida State University researchers have demonstrated that significantly increasing dietary folic acid in mice can prevent peripheral neuropathy, a condition commonly associated with diabetes and ...

The largest fMRI study to date finds that heavy cannabis use in young adults reduces brain activity and impairs working memory performance.