In Central Australia, the Tjakuṟa (great desert skink, Liopholis kintorei) is a culturally important species for Tjukurpa—the ...

The giant salamanders spend most of their lives nearly invisible under rocks in streams, which has made it difficult to ...

The Museu da Amazônia - MUSA, a patch of preserved rainforest in Manaus, Brazil, is 1.5 hours by river away from the XPRIZE Rainforest competition site. Scientists studied its rich biodiversity to ...

Biodiversity is declining across the planet, but what about in Wisconsin, how do we measure it, and how can we stop it?

Dame Edna Everage, the comic character by which Humphries is best known, won’t be in the hushed galleries of Christie’s in person—she hasn’t been seen in public since the death of her ...

Genetics is the branch of science concerned with genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms. It seeks to understand the process of trait inheritance from parents to offspring, including ...

There are calls for the federal government to prioritise legislation that would ban life insurers from using genetic testing to refuse cover. Genetic testing can allow people to take preventative ...

Evolutionary genetics is the study of how genetic variation leads to evolutionary change. It includes topics such as the evolution of genome structure, the genetic basis of speciation and ...