Brazil has the “world’s richest genetic diversity”, and some of its residents may reap the longevity benefits.

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Engineers at the University of California have developed a new data structure and compression technique that enables the ...

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Carlos Alcaraz’s split with coach Juan Carlos Ferrero has shaken the tennis world, highlighting how on-court coaching, star ...

PanMAN data structures compress pangenomes massively, encode evolutionary histories, and enable scalable analysis of millions of genomes.

Lizards have amazing regeneration abilities. When in danger, they may purposefully lose their tail, only for it to regrow ...

An Australian study has shed light on a pest you’ve probably hosted at some point – and it has unearthed a new theory about ...

Health experts warn that mpox, rubella, bird flu and Oropouche could spark the next pandemic as vaccine rates plummet ...

Asking ‘what is life?’ is a good way to start arguments in science. As a recent informal poll suggests, no two individuals ...

Little is known about why the woolly rhinoceros went extinct around 14,000 years ago. Scientists have found clues in the ...

Despite multiple mass extinctions, the frilled shark has managed to thrive for 100 million years. Today, it remains one of ...