For decades, biologists treated DNA as a static string of letters, a linear code that cells read like text on a page. A new ...

Scientists find the DNA of a 300,000-year-old horse in Schöningen, driven to extinction by hunting, next to a wooden spear ...

Archaeological evidence from sites like Madjedbebe suggested an arrival date of approximately 65,000 years ago, while genetic analyses consistently pointed to a much more recent timeframe of 47,000 to ...

Bad guys beware: Your DNA is in the air. Scientists have discovered that human DNA can be easily found — allowing it to later be sequenced — virtually anywhere, from furniture to footprints and even ...

A tiny Crimean bone links Neanderthals to Siberia, revealing long-distance networks shaped by shifting climates and migration routes.

With a new study in the journal Cell, researchers at Stanford University and Stockholm University have contributed to ...

Researchers identified a new, sticky form of mitochondrial DNA damage that builds up at dramatically higher levels than in ...

Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia.

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their ...

Greenland has changed quickly in the past 25 years. Along with new foods, jobs and habits has come a sharp rise in type 2 ...

Orange cats have always stood out in the living room, but new research shows they also stand apart in the mammal family tree.