Thousands of years ago, the Sahara Desert was a lush and fertile landscape, home to thriving communities. A new study ...
The study bolsters one hypothesis of when people arrived at the landmass that became Australia and other islands, and ...
Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...
A man who died in 2019 has been posthumously identified as the perpetrator of three cold case homicides in Toronto, with ...
Long-buried traces of Denisovan DNA have resurfaced in modern human genomes — and they may still be working for us today.
About 5 years ago, LaKisha Tawanda David traced her family's ancestry back to Ghana through genetic testing. For her, a Black ...
After more than a century of speculation, researchers have traced the likely origins of the legendary Hjortspring boat through chemical analysis of its construction materials and the discovery of an ...
AMISTAD, a new collections-based research project led by London’s Natural History Museum, is working on untangling the identities of a group of blue butterflies from South America.
The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.
Hopefully, it’s a problem that butterfly researchers won’t have to face for too much longer. A new museum research project, known as AMISTAD, is combining ancient DNA, modern computing technology and ...
Daigle’s research showed that 87% of his 331 students had French ancestry, 81% had Indigenous ancestry and 70% specifically ...
Colon cancer is hitting long before the usual screening age. If you could ID who's at risk, you could screen early and save ...