Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a prolonged childhood despite a small brain and an ...

Gene mutations have consequences both good and bad—from resistance to conditions like diabetes to susceptibility to certain ...

Environmental DNA harvested from the ocean, land and air can help scientists monitor wildlife. The challenge is figuring out how to interpret this eDNA.

Among extant genes known to have originated among Denisovans are sequences common in Tibetan populations that help the body ...

Credit: NASA Wednesday’s research aboard the International Space Station (ISS) focused on DNA-like nanomaterials ... on plant ...

The actual connection between physics and molecular biology is that curvature and torsion are the most probable solutions ...

The Earth BioGenome Project seeks to genetically profile over a million plants, animals, and fungi as they build an atlas of ...

Has the Atlantis mystery finally been solved? A new book reveals that Plato based his story on a real setting, now beneath ...

DNA catapults into spotlight. A trio of research papers from Stanford Medicine researchers and their international collaborators transforms scientists’ understanding of how small DNA circles — until ...

The results of new DNA tests just dropped this week, and they prove that we don't know as much about Pompeii as we once ...