For the first time, researchers have uncovered direct genomic evidence of the bacterium behind the Plague of Justinian—the ...

Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed ...

Roughly 10,000 years ago, humans started shifting from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to building large agricultural ...

But a novel technique is allowing us to peer back further than DNA's expiration date in Africa, to answer long-standing ...

New research sheds light on Denisovans: chronology of Denisova Cave, sedimentary DNA, and genetic legacy in Asia and Oceania.

DNA’s chemical cousin, RNA, was the messenger that carries DNA instructions from the double helix in the cell’s nucleus to ...

In the winter of 1812, Napoleon’s once-mighty army left Russia battered, frostbitten, and starving. The infamous retreat ...