By sequencing ancient DNA from the fetus, scientists revealed a severe genetic bottleneck that reshaped Neanderthal history long before they vanished.

A new study challenges the age of a site in Chile, called Monte Verde, that's crucial to our understanding of how people got ...

Analyzing samples of mummies from different dynastic periods showed how the mixtures of substances used in mummification became more complex with time.

Scientists in the New England Aquarium’s Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life, who conduct aerial surveys to collect data on ...

For more than a century, common wisdom held that the original forest of the Adirondacks was largely erased. A new wave of research reveals more old growth than previously thought.

A series of deaths and disappearances involving high-level U.S. researchers over the past year has sparked concern among lawmakers, with Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN) calling for increased ...

By scanning the brains of mice throughout their lifespans, scientists at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute and the University of Texas at Dallas have discovered that the human brain is not unique in how ...

A centuries-old navy ship has unexpectedly reappeared in the Baltic Sea, revealing clues about history, preservation, and the forces that kept it hidden.

A game dev from Australia is going viral after cryogenically freezing his beloved pet dog in the hopes of finding a cure for her cancer.

What can the world's longest living individual teach us about longevity? A team of scientists coordinated by the University of California, Davis, sequenced the Great Basin bristlecone pine genome, ...

The brain of a 233-million-year-old ancestor of the first flying reptiles has been reconstructed in a bid to work out how ...

Stephen Paul Gale is on trial for the rape of two Framingham store employees in 1989. The case went unsolved for years, until a renewed push to test the evidence for DNA led investigators to Gale, who ...