I have spent years covering discoveries that nudge our origin story around the edges, but the sequencing of DNA from one of the very last Neanderthals does something different: it rewrites the center ...

The PubPlant database organizes the avalanche of new genomes that are revolutionizing agriculture.

Why do no two human faces look quite the same? Although we all follow the same biological blueprint, our features—the curve ...

A sealed tomb, a skeleton in a pot, and a 4,500-year-old secret hidden in two teeth have just upended what we thought we knew ...

A recent study has shed light on a unique group of people outside Africa who possess virtually no Denisovan DNA. This finding ...

A habitat-building coralline algae that provides a vital nursing ground for marine species and an important blue carbon ...

Researchers analysed more than 3,400 eggplant varieties and their wild relatives to build the first complete pangenome and ...

MIT researchers discovered that the genome’s 3D structure doesn’t vanish during cell division as previously thought. Instead, tiny loops called microcompartments remain (and even strengthen) while ...

Millions of birds are expected to fly over the U.S. to reach their migratory destinations, and a sizeable fraction of them will pass through Michigan after the sun goes down on Sept. 29. Late on ...