Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Back in 2008, neurovirologist Renée Douville observed something weird in the brains of people who’d died of the movement disorder ...

Polar bears are rapidly undergoing “fundamental genetic changes” in a desperate attempt to adapt to the climate crisis. Human-caused climate change is warming the Arctic at an accelerated rate, two to ...

Polar bears are leaping through their evolution in real time as rising temperatures threaten their habitat. A population of bears was found in a climate warmer than one in which they usually exist and ...

Research performed in the Center for Biomolecular Science & Engineering (CBSE) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, suggests that mobile repetitive elements–also known as transposons or ...

Genomes are key to unlocking life’s evolutionary history. The presence and absence of certain genetic sequences and mutations can give us clues to the order in which species diverge. However, even ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...