When cells proliferate, genomic DNA is precisely duplicated once per cell cycle. Abnormalities in this DNA replication ...

New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

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

Blue Origin will launch the NS-37 mission on Dec. 18 with the first wheelchair user to reach space, along with five other passengers on the New Shepard suborbital flight ...

Long-buried traces of Denisovan DNA have resurfaced in modern human genomes — and they may still be working for us today.

A Europe-focused study published in the journal Science examined 87 ancient and modern cat genomes and found that the domestic cat, which has the scientific name Felis catus, originated in North ...

Trump wants Bagram back. Satellite images show how the Taliban are using it. Stephen Colbert wonders why 'The Late Show' was ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

For decades, archaeologists believed that cats first started living alongside early farming communities in the Levant — covering parts of today’s Middle East and eastern Mediterranean — around 9,500 ...

In the north, distinctive lineages such as M27, M28, and M29′Q trace deep roots in New Guinea and Near Oceania, while in the ...

Domestic cats first joined European communities around 2,000 years ago, during the age of Roman power, not in deep prehistory ...