Open wide! Scientists can learn about your DNA when you buy a kit and then send a swab or tube of your saliva back to the company. 

Relax. Everybody sweats. But what causes that distinctive sweaty smell? Blame your bacteria.

Flooding rains and other extreme weather events often lead people to ask whether climate change is to blame. That’s hard to answer, although an emerging field of research is getting better at that.

These colored bands are one of Earth’s growth charts. They show strata — layers of rock — in Romania containing dino fossils that have been deposited over time. Scientists can date these strata to understand when the fossilized animals within them had lived.