For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

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Researchers at Forschungszentrum Jülich and Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf have developed a tool that could ...

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The DNA of Chernobyl cleanup workers showed mutations caused by radiation that were also evident in the genes of their ...

A newly published paper in Nature describes the complex process of launching a nine-country collaboration in Africa to ...

Geneticists have uncovered a faint but persistent signal in modern DNA that points to a vanished branch of humanity, a “ghost ...

AS the Philippines continues to battle biodiversity loss, Google has announced a major step forward in using AI to preserve endangered species. Through a ...

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Oxygen is everywhere on Earth today. But that hasn’t always been the case. Scientists think oxygen only became a lasting part ...

Genetic data strengthens the case that humans first settled Sahul around 60,000 years ago, using multiple seafaring routes.