A genetic study published on Tuesday offers an important new clue. Researchers found that, between 250,000 and 500,000 years ...

New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place ...

Researchers from The University of Manchester—in collaboration with the Universities of Granada, Lund, and Oslo—have ...

In a lab at Rockefeller University in New York, a mouse squeaks. But this is no ordinary squeak. It is a strange, complex ...

New research suggests a genetic variant in the NOVA1 protein may have played a key role in the emergence of human speech.

When the Hamilton County Coroner reopens the case decades later, new DNA technology begins identifying more victims.

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Fish in the wild can tell humans apart! A study found that seabream recognize individual divers, following those who feed them while ignoring others. For years, scientific divers at a Mediterranean re ...

Curled up inside every single one of the trillions of cells in the human body is six feet of DNA, spooled tightly and carrying the genetic instructions that govern so much of who a person becomes.