A new study reveals why women tend to retain their cognitive abilities longer than men. Researchers hope their findings can help rejuvenate aging brains. Tyron Molteni - stock.adobe.com Men have an X ...

The biological research of UC Santa Cruz’s Needhi Bhalla to determine the molecular motions at the heart of heredity has yielded a new discovery: The proper transfer of genetic materials depends on ...

WASHINGTON >> Bipedal locomotion — walking upright on two legs — is a fundamental trait underpinning humankind’s success. Scientists have now identified two innovations that occurred long ago in the ...

The DNA of nearly all life on Earth contains many redundancies, and scientists have long wondered whether these redundancies served a purpose or if they were just leftovers from evolutionary processes ...

Beauty and brains that age slowly — turns out that women can have it all! Men have an X and a Y chromosome, while women have ...