Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Scientists have identified a promising new way to monitor dolphin populations, and it starts with a simple ...

Effective and noninvasive whale and biodiversity monitoring is now possible with the help of citizen scientists, opening up new opportunities for marine conservation. Water samples collected during ...

Educational attainment (EduYears), a heritable trait often used as a proxy for cognitive ability, is associated with various health and social outcomes. Previous genome-wide association studies (GWASs ...

Longitudinal sampling of the stool has yielded important insights into the ecological dynamics of the human gut microbiome. However, human stool samples are available approximately once per day, while ...

Scientists working off the coast of Southern California have extracted 836 distinct dolphin mitochondrial DNA sequences from 126 seawater samples collected near Santa Catalina Island, producing enough ...

A research team was able to locate human populations in an African desert believed to have disappeared more than 50 years ago. DNA studies helped show the genetic differences between neighboring ...