Ancient DNA is turning human prehistory into something startlingly intimate. Instead of a clean handoff from one species to another, the last 50,000 years look more like a long, tangled story of ...

Experts reconstructed the genome of Treponema pallidum from 5,500-year-old human remains in Colombia, revealing an unknown ...

Recent research shows that human evolution followed a braided pattern rather than a simple family tree. Fossils and ancient DNA reveal repeated hybridization between Neanderthals, Denisovans, and ...

As AI accelerates, leaders must fundamentally reimagine their digital operating model, harnessing AI as a catalyst to ...

How big of a role do our genes play in our lifespan? Quite a bit more than previously thought, a new study suggests.

Researchers led by the University of Vienna and Liège University Hospital Center have identified genetic variants associated ...

In 1985, teenage boys made a chilling discovery in the Wolf River: a human skull. The remains would become known as “Wolf River Joanne Doe,” launching a cold case investigation.

In 1963, researchers unearthed two Stone Age skeletons that were buried in an embraced position in a cave in Italy. Now, DNA testing has revealed that one of them had a rare genetic condition.

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

From a 5,500-year-old human shin bone, scientists have discovered a close cousin of the pathogen that causes syphilis, ...

The findings represent the oldest complete set of genetic information from this bacterial group and shed light on its ...

The power of artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced computing has made it possible to design genetic sequences encoding ...