A wave of ancient DNA studies published in Nature has forced a sharp revision of how scientists understand the peopling of Europe, replacing old narratives of stable, isolated populations with ...

Extinction has always been permanent - until now. Advances in genetics and biotechnology are giving scientists the tools to ...

For many years, researchers believed that the DNA inside a newly fertilized egg began as a structural ‘blank slate’ – a loose ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have received an $80 million grant to continue research into the mysteries of exceptional longevity.

Neurons have a "hibernation mode." Scientists discover how brain cells use RNA tentacles to lock their protein factories together to survive when energy is low.

Love is in the air for the vinegar fly. Drosophila melanogaster has long been a model for understanding how brains translate sensory information into courtship behavior. Male flies perform a multitude ...

A study of ancient human DNA from a wetland region in Belgium, western Germany, and the Netherlands yielded surprising ...

In 2013, farmers in the highlands of Ethiopia began to notice something unsettling: a familiar variety of wheat was failing ...

A version of this Priestley Medal address will be presented at the American Chemical Society Spring 2026 meeting ...

Researchers from New England Biolabs and Yale University have created a system for engineering the first fully synthetic ...

A new study suggests that inherited traits explain a small but measurable share of why some people relocate far from where they were born.

Within a few centuries, the genetic landscape of the Rhine-Meuse region, including the wetlands, was completely reshaped. Our ...