The long-term data revealed a clear decline in biodiversity from the 1970s to the early 2000s. Species linked to birch ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

If stretched out, human DNA would be about 2 meters long. For this long strand to fit inside the cell nucleus, which is about ...

Agriculture, from the outset, has been made possible by humans tweaking the genes of plants to make them grow faster, produce ...

An excavation in Italy has unearthed the oldest and first known evidence of father-daughter incest in the archaeological ...

A tiny percentage of our DNA—around 2%—contains 20,000-odd genes. The remaining 98%—long known as the non-coding genome, or ...

DNA captured on air filters and stored since the 1960s acts as an ecological time capsule, according to a recent publication ...

Physical analysis of the remains suggested that the owner of the bones was approximately 18 to 25 years old at the time of ...