Researchers pinpoint the genes responsible for the final three pea traits studied by the famed citizen scientist.

Genetic research challenges biological basis of race, showing physical traits are a result of evolutionary adaptation rather ...

An executive order critiques the idea that race is a human invention. But that's exactly what modern science supports.

Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the ...

In psychology, the term subjective well-being (SWB) is used to describe the extent to which different people feel happy and ...

Deep learning and ATAC-seq uncover noncoding variants linked to gene regulation and disease in human liver cells.

As US President Donald Trump takes aim at the Smithsonian Institution for "anti-American ideology", Adam Rutherford examines ...

In the recent flurry of executive orders from President Donald Trump, one warned of "a distorted narrative" about race "driven by ideology rather than truth." It singled out a current exhibition at ...

Understanding how genes influence complex behaviors remains one of biology's most fascinating challenges. Now, however, in a recent study, researchers have compiled a comprehensive dataset documenting ...

The current tools of genetics, they say, simply aren’t equipped to explain which, if any, portions of observed group differences in complex human traits are attributable to the effects of genes, ...