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A decades-old CIA intelligence document has gone viral and prompted a fresh debate about a potential cure for cancer.

A University of Arizona study finds scientists are discovering 16,000 new species annually — and DNA tools may reveal billions more.

Scientists say Earth could contain billions of undiscovered species, and new DNA tools may accelerate discoveries faster than ever.

The DNA foundation model Evo 2 has been published in the journal Nature. Trained on the DNA of over 100,000 species across ...

Born in 1809, Charles Darwin proposed the theory of natural selection and helped set the foundation for how modern scientists classify organisms, cementing hims ...

A creature whose relatives evolved roughly 500 million years ago — before dinosaurs, before trees — was sitting on the ocean floor off South Korea, misidentified as something it wasn’t. Two biologists ...

Scientists discover thousands of new species every year, and a surprising number of those creatures end up named after pop ...

Some 400 million years ago, long before dinosaurs or even trees had evolved, an enigmatic organism towered over the landscape like a prehistoric monolith. Now, new research makes the case that the ...

WASHINGTON ‒ President Donald Trump has taken action classifying fentanyl as a "weapon of mass destruction" as his administration escalates efforts to combat the flow of illicit drugs into the United ...

The elusive little bugs are smaller than typical bacteria but are generally bigger than true viruses. Even with an electron microscope they are so difficult to corner and classify that their very name ...

Foraminifera (forams) are shelled microorganisms that are abundant in the Earth’s seabed. Analyzing different species of forams provides important information about climate change, the state of the ...