SciShow is supported by Brilliant.org. Tiny versions of chromosomes show up in things like birds, reptiles, and amphibians.

Two separate groups of biologists reported fusing entire sets of Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosomes together, and ...

Hidden within fish DNA are powerful genetic twists that may explain one of nature’s biggest mysteries: how new species form so quickly. In Lake Malawi, hundreds of cichlid fish species evolved at ...

Three manageable tweaks to behavior could have an outsize influence on how long and well we live, a study involving tens of ...

A collaborative research study co-led by scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Liber Institute for Brain Development has for the first time identified a biological process ...

A collaborative research study co-led by scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Liber Institute ...

It’s widely known that regular exercise prolongs life but science has even better news for multisporters: triathlon training ...

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is supporting a ruling this week by the International Olympic Committee that bans ...

People can pay $50,000 to clone their dog, but despite sharing an identical genetic makeup, they won't act exactly the same.

Naturally occurring haploids are predominantly documented in plants; the first report dates to 1923, when haploid individuals were identified in the ...

President Trump said this morning that he was giving Iran two choices: They could abandon their nuclear ambitions and ...

Structure of Ndc80 complex bound to microtubule. Ndc80 complex is the major microtubule3binding module at the kinetochore.