I have spent years covering discoveries that nudge our origin story around the edges, but the sequencing of DNA from one of the very last Neanderthals does something different: it rewrites the center ...
Scientists have uncovered how brewer’s yeast developed its unusually tiny centromeres, the DNA regions that guide chromosome ...
A wave of ancient DNA studies published in Nature has forced a sharp revision of how scientists understand the peopling of ...
The cloudberry, a popular northern dessert berry, reveals a surprising genetic origin after a study deciphers its complex evolution.
When ancient DNA studies began to gain attention, little more than a decade ago, the view took hold among geneticists that ...
Ancient DNA provides an insight into Pompeii life and its residents, contradicting what we thought we knew about the small Roman town. Nearly 2000 years ago, Mount Vesuvius (Campania, Italy) erupted ...
On February 28, 1953, two scientists, James Watson and Francis Crick, announced they had figured out the structure of DNA. DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid, is the ...