What had been described by scientists as "junk" DNA is what gives humans their distinct identity.

China is commissioning a strangely shaped telescope in the forested hills northeast of Beijing that Chinese scientists said will be the world's most efficient tool for mapping the galaxy in three dimensions.

Children who live in the US Northwest's wettest counties are more likely to have autism, but it is unclear why, US researchers reported on Tuesday.

Your body odour, like your fingerprints, would remain distinctive even if you gorged on onions for several years.

Chinese computer users have become chief targets for online criminals, according to a security report released by Microsoft.

Still puzzling over how warm and wet Mars may have once been, scientists are now seeing global mineralogical signs that the planet was at least occasionally wet for the first two billion years of its existence.

Preschoolers with a parent away at war were more likely to show aggression than other young children in military families, according to the first published research.

Parents don't take up children's duties on their own, it's the genes that guide them to take up different roles in kids' upbringing, finds a new study, which establishes the fact that different roles of mothers and fathers are influenced by genetics

Being nervous, isolated, anxious or neurotic during childhood protects young men from becoming criminal offenders until they enter adulthood.