In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil electrified the ...

Scientists map the true nature of the genome with its loops and folds in four dimensions across time and space.

Scientists mapped hidden DNA switches in brain support cells to understand how gene control may influence Alzheimer’s disease ...

We swat them, ignore them and hoover them up but the smallest creatures around us are helping forensic scientists uncover ...

Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful of teeth found at the Ledi-Geraru site in Ethiopia suggest that diverse ...

As more people turn to donor sperm to grow their families, a new sperm bank is challenging outdated norms.

In the Middle Ages, a plague killed a third of Europe's population. Fleas carried the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, ...

Rockville to be home of South Korean drugmaker Samsung Biologics' first manufacturing facility in the United States.

The cave is low and dark, and it is dug into limestone on a little island in the Baltic Sea where the wind blows salt from ...

Thirty years ago, astronomers weren’t sure planets beyond our solar system even existed. This year, NASA has confirmed its ...