A vast stretch of islands across the South Pacific holds one of the oldest human stories on Earth. For tens of thousands of ...

Pigment sampling at a claviform rock art figure in Tebellín, Spain. (Alberto Martínez Villa/Bossoms Mesa et al., Nat. Commun.

Environmental DNA from rivers worldwide reveals how climate boosts fish diversity—and how human activity is disrupting that ...

“Before the last glacial period, Neanderthals had diverse maternal lineages. As ice sheets advanced and habitable territory shrank, survivors appear to have concentrated in a climate refugium in ...

Centuries-old rumors of Francesco de Medici's murder have been debunked by DNA analysis. Scientists discovered that both ...

Americans are celebrating 250 years of independence this Fourth of July with events including the largest fireworks display ...

The FDA could approve the first blood test that can detect multiple cancers, around the end of the year, setting the stage for it to become widely available.

Scientists have created a silicon chip that can write dozens of DNA sequences simultaneously using electricity and ...

Is it possible to study the history of viruses that emerged several hundred million years ago? An international team of INRAE ...

DNA from a 5,000-year-old French megalithic tomb reveals that the people buried before and after a population collapse were ...

For more than 150 years, scientists have debated when and how the Colorado River first carved its way through the Grand ...

Newborn mice neurons can snap both DNA strands to migrate, then repair the breaks within a day. The process may be a normal ...