High in the Ecuadorian Andes, at altitudes thousands of meters above sea level, humans face environmental pressures very ...

For decades, a neat story about human origins has floated through textbooks and documentaries: modern humans emerged in East ...

When scientists sequenced the first Neanderthal genomes, they did not just resurrect a lost branch of the human family tree, they uncovered a living legacy inside most people alive today. A small but ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

An evolutionary "trap" has haunted crested and marbled newts for 25 million years: Leiden researchers have uncovered a mysterious DNA error that should not be able to arise—yet persists all the same.

Scientists trace the origins of human kissing back over 20 million years to ancient apes who first showed gentle ...

CSHL postdoc Iacopo Gentile has devised a new system for identifying redundant genes and predicting how certain genetic ...

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

The microorganism, which now defines its own genus, species, and phylum, offers rare insight into how early eukaryotic life may have formed. Its structure and genetic markers reveal traces of ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the oldest and deadliest infectious diseases we know. It commonly impacts the lungs, but can also affect other areas of the body like the spine, brain or kidneys.

A new study found that Clubonia spiders use their own antifreeze made of specific proteins that they sequenced.

Plants have developed an extraordinary ability to synthesize a diverse array of secondary metabolites. These compounds are ...