There has only been one albino western lowland gorilla ever found in the wild or captivity. Snowflake the gorilla lived in ...

A massive crossover of cultures and ethnicities often increases genetic variability as children inherit dominant traits from their parents. Each facial feature, skin color, and trait tells a story of ...

A new book offers an unsettling account of human exceptionalism and shows that the unique ways we gamble with risks and move out of our comfort zones may yet be our downfall.

In a nutshell Scientists discovered a tiny genetic change in the NOVA1 gene that exists only in modern humans — not in ...

Researchers from London's Moorfields Eye Hospital, biotech firm MeiraGTx and University College London have demonstrated that ...

Multiple studies suggest that speaking more than one language pushes back the onset of dementia, but doesn't seem to stop it ...