A coyote made famous after swimming to Alcatraz Island in January recently gave scientists another surprise as they ...

New work at Denisova Cave in Siberia has revealed both concentrated Neanderthal DNA preserved in sediment blocks and a ...

Scientists have captured the most detailed structural images to date of a specific type of protein's DNA repair process, a ...

That strange “worm” at the bottom of some mezcal bottles has finally been identified, and the answer overturns decades of ...

New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

You walk through a field of wheat, ryegrass, or clover and notice the sway of stems and leaves. What you cannot see is where most of the action happens. Beneath the soil surface, roots spread, compete ...

Burials from over a millennia ago are revealing how people lived in part of the Roman Empire after it fell.

Researchers have found that simply using larger-pore filters can improve detection of marine animal DNA, potentially boosting conservation monitoring. In separate work, scientists identified an ...