Mustard gas blistered men’s bodies on the battlefield, but paved the way for cancer-fighting drugs.

Researchers found that allegedly noncoding genetic material carries the instructions for many peptides that may help harness the immune system to fight cancer.

A survey reveals the disease has decimated populations in Central and South America and tropical Australia and contributed to the extinction of 90 species.

An artificially intelligent program tracks the motion of infants to help doctors look for links to disorders with abnormal motions.

An analysis of the scars left by long-gone flows reveals that Mars’s rivers may have run even when scientists thought the planet was drying out.

A gene helps motor neurons successfully venture out from the spinal cord to muscles during mouse development.

Over 30 years, one-third of the wild bees and hoverfly species surveyed sustained losses, likely due to pesticides, habitat loss, and climate change.

In cell division, a protein called spastin appears to help tear down a bridge between daughter cells.

The world’s largest T. rex found to date likely weighed nearly 20,000 pounds during its life.

Researchers can now track the expansion of a resistance mechanism that allows the malaria vector Anopholes funestus to detoxify a key insecticide used on bed nets.

It’s unclear how the order, which charges academic institutions to follow existing rules regarding the First Amendment, will be implemented and enforced.

When hair follicle stem cells lose their protein-based death cue, they take on a new role helping to repair wounds in skin.