A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

Genomics drives climate resilience by revealing microbial impacts on Portuguese crops and supporting Amazonian pirarucu ...

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

Rare earth elements are vital to new technologies and industry but hard to obtain. A new project led by UC Davis and funded by a grant from ARPA-E aims to develop acid-tolerant bacteria that can ...

Ethyl acetate was identified as the most effective solvent for cannabinoid extraction from cannabis oil and marijuana samples ...

Analyzing several major pathology AI models designed to diagnose cancer, the researchers found unequal performance in ...

Fossils can reveal far more than the shapes of ancient creatures. Molecules preserved inside old animal bones provide clues about past diseases, what those animals ate, and the climates they lived in.

Scientists successfully extract RNA from a 130-year-old Tasmanian tiger, thylacine, revealing how its genes functioned before its extinction.

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.