A human embryo ‘base edited’ so that it can’t produce a key protein (right), fails to form the mass of cells that gives rise ...

At first glance, bat sea stars, the nubbly, orange, many-footed creatures often found on the seafloor, seem about as far from humans as one can get. Appearances can be deceiving, however. Scientists ...

When Jasmin Imran Alsous peered down her microscope lens, she expected to see chaos—a mishmash of tangled cells. She was viewing the inside of a male fruit fly's sperm storage organ, using a powerful ...

Hard-right Polish politician Dawid Szóstak has quit his homophobic party after revealing that he’s dating an intersex model. Dawid Szóstak has said goodbye to the anti-LGBTQ+ Confederation party after ...

Eggs are about two and a half feet tall and are usually brownish in colour and leathery in appearance. They are extremely tough and the outer skin is difficult to cut through and any attempts will ...

Follow this advice if you're battling pneumonia. Image courtesy: Shutterstock Pneumonia is a word that’s not alien to any of us, more so in the Covid-19 era. A disorder affecting the alveoli in the ...

"This drug kills", says Suzanne Massey, "I lost my mum when I was just 22 to ovarian cancer. She suffered horribly and it is likely her death was linked to DES." Suzanne, from Liverpool, is describing ...

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Progressives like to cite this maxim because, in their view, the arc inevitably bends in one direction: to the left. Except when ...

Octopuses are one of the most alien creatures on Earth. The lack of bones makes them amazing shapeshifters, most of them can change color like chameleons, and they pump blue copper-based blood through ...

Accounts of the massacre by Japanese invaders of patients and staff at the British Military Hospital (Alexandra Hospital) Singapore on 13-14 February 1942 ("The Alexandra Outrage")RAMC/840 Account by ...

It belongs to a group of animals referred to as sea spiders, but while it has eight legs and looks superficially like a spider, that is where the similarities end. It doesn’t move like a spider, feed ...

When most of us picture the ocean, we imagine turquoise waves, colorful reefs, and shoals of darting fish. But that’s only the surface. Venture deeper, far below the last reach of sunlight, and you ...