A Roman-era skeleton discovered in southern England has finally given up her secrets after more than a decade of debate.

Oceana scientist Caitlynn Birch explains how environmental DNA, or eDNA, helps us understand and protect the oceans ...

In a pine forest on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the only active nickel mine in the US is nearing the end of its life. At a ...

Kolkata: The forensic team scanning the gutted Pushpanjali Decorators godown for human remains are facing a stiff challenge ...

New tech lets scientists extract DNA from old grasshopper collections without damaging the specimens. This unlocks evolutionary data previously inaccessible due to DNA degradation.

All life on Earth shares a common ancestor that lived roughly four billion years ago. This so-called "last universal common ...

For more than a century, Neanderthals have been cast as a vanished side branch of the human family tree, a brief encounter in ...

The search for Today anchor Savannah Guthrie’s mother is still underway, as authorities prepare for another ransom-note ...

In A Nutshell Johns Hopkins researchers developed a blood test that catches 81% of stage IA lung cancers (the earliest, most ...

The Natural History Museum, London and Earlham Institute, Norwich today announce a joint venture spin-out company Agnos Biosciences™ (the first of its kind in the Museum’s history). The Agnos ...

Researchers describe a rare type of gene family, known as “universal paralogs”, that provides insight into evolutionary history predating the last universal common ancestor of all life. Detailed ...

The Beachy Head Woman has carried a heavy burden for a long dead individual, pressed into service as a symbol of modern ...