Ancient DNA reveals how farming accelerated human evolution, driving genetic changes over the past 10,000 years.

A new study from MIT suggests that a carcinogen that has been found in medications and in drinking water contaminated by ...

Scientists now recognize that spontaneous DNA errors, which we acquire in early development all the way until our last breath ...

No direct hits are required; shock waves from a jet can ripple across hundreds of thousands of light-years to churn galactic ...

More than two years after H5N1 bird flu was first detected in U.S. dairy cattle, the virus has proven remarkably good at ...

There is strong scientific consensus surrounding this story and it is informed by multiple converging lines of evidence.

A surprising discovery from high-altitude animals like yaks and Tibetan antelopes could reshape how we treat nerve damage in humans. Scientists found that a genetic mutation helping these animals ...

Learn more about new research that analyzed 16,000 ancient genomes and discovered that natural selection hasn’t slowed down.

The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...

A new platform for studying mtDNA mutations implicated in human disease could help accelerate treatments for mitochondrial ...