Scientists have sequenced the largest known animal genome — and it's 30 times bigger than the human genome. The genome belongs to the South American lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa), a primeval ...

Now, scientists are revealing ever more extreme examples of this giant-genome phenomenon even as their existence remains a mystery. New research has identified the largest known genome of any ...

About one in five  American adults have osteoarthritis, the most common form of arthritis,  according to the Centers for ...

(jacqui-nz on iNaturalist/Wikimedia Commons via Courthouse News) PARIS (AFP) — A small, seemingly unremarkable fern that only grows on a remote Pacific island was on Friday crowned the Guinness World ...

Scientists say the map of a speck of a mouse's brain could be as transformative as the Human Genome Project. Here's what to ...

The U.S. Government Accountability Office plans to scrutinize changes at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including any led by the White House or Elon Musk's Department of Government ...