Ancient genetic data from central Argentina reveal a previously unknown human population that endured there for millennia ...

A groundbreaking genetic study has revealed that Italians who reach 100 carry significantly more ancient Western hunter-gatherer DNA than their younger counterparts. The research, published in ...

Shimao’s 4,000-year-old secrets are surfacing—starting with 80 skulls buried beneath a gate. But it’s not what you think.

Deep in coastal mangroves and even inside our own mouths, biologists are finding that DNA does not always sit in a simple ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich recently explained the role of a molecular complex that orchestrates the production of proteins in ...

AlphaFold didn't accelerate biology by running faster experiments. It changed the engineering assumptions behind protein ...

It's a common storytelling trope: the stubborn foe who is eventually revealed to be a much-needed friend. Biology has its own ...

The 4D map, which includes more than 140,000 folds and loops for every type of cell, illustrates how human DNA is organized not only in space but also in time. This information is crucial ...

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

It grows quickly and depends on adult worker ants to feed it. These workers decide how much and what kind of food the larva ...

The vampire squid genome shows it kept ancient features shared with squids, while octopuses gained major chromosomal changes.

Women outlive men in nearly every country—but the reason has nothing to do with diet, stress, or modern life. A ...