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 ...

The Beachy Head Woman has carried a heavy burden for a long dead individual, pressed into service as a symbol of modern ...

Oceana scientist Caitlynn Birch explains how environmental DNA, or eDNA, helps us understand and protect the oceans ...

A Roman-era skeleton discovered in southern England has finally given up her secrets after more than a decade of debate. Known as the Beachy Head Woman, she was once thought to have roots in ...

Kolkata: The forensic team scanning the gutted Pushpanjali Decorators godown for human remains are facing a stiff challenge ...

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 ...

A study of wild African herbivores offers new insight into how environmental conditions—not just diet and anatomy—can ...

Given current challenges in gene-replacement and gene-editing therapies, tRNA-based approaches show promise for treating diseases caused by nonsense mutations. We engineered a suppressor tRNA gene for ...

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

As high-throughput genomic sequencing generates increasing data volumes, researchers face challenges in identifying functional gene regions within DNA ...

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 ...