Researchers at the University of Huddersfield have used ancient DNA to reveal that hunter-gatherers in one part of Europe survived for thousands of years longer than anywhere else on the continent—and ...

Dashiell Hammett mentioned Sam Spade's jutting chin in the opening sentence of his novel, "The Maltese Falcon." Spade's chin ...

Repeated burn injuries over more than a million years may have shaped human genes for wound closure, inflammation, and ...

It’s a common mistake to think we came directly from the monkeys or chimps you see at the zoo today, […] ...

Explore an interactive avian tree of life that reveals how 11,000 bird species are connected through millions of years of ...

The species in which monkeypox virus naturally circulates is uncertain, but wildlife surveillance data suggest that the fire-footed rope squirrel is a likely candidate.

A cross-species transmission event documented in Côte d’Ivoire provides new insights into the spread of mpox in the wild Researchers at the Helmholtz Institute for One Health (HIOH), a site of the ...

This spooky macabre museum in Georgia will send shivers down your spine, featuring eerie exhibits dark history and an ...

"By following universal paralogs," says Kaçar, "we can connect the earliest steps of life on Earth to the tools of modern ...

Why does the same virus barely faze one person while sending another to the hospital? New research shows the answer lies in a molecular record etched into our immune cells by both our genes and our ...

Meuse river delta resisted population shifts that transformed most of Europe — until they helped catalyse the expansion of ...

The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.