The study also suggests that an outbreak the size of the one in West Texas earlier this year costs about $12.6 million.

Scientists are conducting genetic analyses to see if the measles outbreak that started in Texas is still spreading from state ...

An archaeon reads the same codon in two different ways, overturning a doctrine that has stood for 60 years. Living organisms ...

Archaeologists found 115,000-year-old human footprints where they shouldn't be—and they just might rewrite the history of ...

Nearly 250 years ago, Europeans established their first permanent settlement in Australia and came into contact with the continent’s Aboriginal people. Now, a new study published in Science Advances ...

A study analyzed the DNA of feral dogs living near Chernobyl, compared the animals to others living 10 miles away, and found ...

Explore how groundbreaking DNA research reveals southern Africa as the cradle of early Homo sapiens, shedding light on the ...

Complex life, eukaryotes, traces its origins to a shared ancestor among the Asgard archaea, reshaping our understanding of ...

Today’s Reading Room focuses on an academic study on the wild wolf genes in most dogs’ DNA. The authors say “dogs are not ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations ...

EU lawmakers have been locked in intense negotiations for months on loosening rules on the use of new genetic technologies in ...