New tech lets scientists extract DNA from old grasshopper collections without damaging the specimens. This unlocks evolutionary data previously inaccessible due to DNA degradation.

For more than a century, Neanderthals have been cast as a vanished side branch of the human family tree, a brief encounter in ...

In a pine forest on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the only active nickel mine in the US is nearing the end of its life. At a ...

All life on Earth shares a common ancestor that lived roughly four billion years ago. This so-called "last universal common ...

A jawbone retrieved from the bottom of the Taiwan Strait has been confirmed as belonging to a Denisovan, one of humanity’s ...

With new technology, smarter tools, and a lot of patient digging, historians and archaeologists are uncovering marvels from every corner of the world. One day it’s an enormous thigh bone from a ...

In A Nutshell Johns Hopkins researchers developed a blood test that catches 81% of stage IA lung cancers (the earliest, most ...

The search for Today anchor Savannah Guthrie’s mother is still underway; she says she’ll pay the ransom in a new video.

The Trump administration finalized a new policy on Thursday giving the president the power to fire or discipline as many as 50,000 career federal employees, the latest step in the president’s efforts ...

Researchers describe a rare type of gene family, known as “universal paralogs”, that provides insight into evolutionary history predating the last universal common ancestor of all life. Detailed ...

Westwin Elements claims its proposed nickel refinement process will produce no liquid or solid waste, raising concerns about ...

Ancient duplicated genes are giving scientists their first real clues about what life was like before all life on Earth shared a common ancestor.