Rare variants are alternative forms of a gene that are present with a minor allele frequency (MAF) of less than 1%. The genetic variants present in humans often reflect the geographical origins of ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday Israel had “settled its account” with Hamas' top leader Yahya Sinwar as he ...

Those conditions, I reasoned, were rare. How people think about rare events—especially unwelcome ones such as traumatic medical episodes or distressing diagnoses—seems to vary considerably ...

Lanthanides, also known as rare-earth metals, are a critical part of modern life. Their name comes from the Greek "lanthanein" for "hidden." And true to form, where titanium and steel make up case ...

An anonymous poker player won a jackpot with a seven-card straight flush at a casino in North Las Vegas. Jack Hamilton via Unsplash A poker player used strategy and “good fortune” to score a ...

The FDA has approved the first two drugs for the rare genetic metabolic disorder Niemann–Pick disease, type C (NPC). Zevra Therapeutics’ arimoclomol (Miplyffa) is a once-rejected small ...

To close out the carousel, Minaj shared a rare photo of the family of three all dolled up in matching black outfits. The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now!

Need more stories about Australia's rare species? 🐨😳 Subscribe to our newsletter. Songs are traditionally passed down from older males to the next generation of youngsters, but today their ...

The world's largest desert, the Sahara, was flooded for the first time in 50 years after a rare spell of rain in Morocco. Satellite imagery captured the remarkable filling of Lake Iriqui, a famous ...

A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert, nourishing some of its driest regions with more water than they had seen in decades.

In a village in central Denmark, archeologists made a landmark discovery that could hold important clues to the Viking era: a burial ground, containing some 50 “exceptionally well-preserved ...