More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

Researchers from ETH Zurich have succeeded in introducing large quantities of unnatural amino acids into bacteria, enabling ...

Each summer, over a dozen Americans enter a soundstage designed as a house in Studio City, California, cut off from the ...

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...

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Despite awe-inspiring diversity, nearly every lifeform—from bacteria to blue whales—shares the same genetic code. How and when this code came about has been the subject of much scientific controversy.

Researchers discovered that a long-misunderstood protein plays a key role in helping chromosomes latch onto the right “tracks” during cell division. Instead of acting like a motor, it works more like ...

For decades, a neat story about human origins has floated through textbooks and documentaries: modern humans emerged in East ...