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Fifteen years after the discovery of a new type of human, the Denisovan, scientists discovered its DNA in a fossilized skull.

In 2022, we reported the DNA sequences of 33 medieval people buried in a Jewish cemetery in Germany. Not long after we made the data publicly available, people started comparing their own DNA with ...

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Physicists have solved a long-standing puzzle about mercury’s nuclear fission by using a five-dimensional model that ...

DNA from a skull found at Newgrange once sparked theories of a royal incestuous elite in ancient Ireland, but new research ...

An obscure group of phages offers insights into elements of microbial warfare—and blueprints for new antibiotics.

“Environmental DNA opens up a new range of possibilities by offering a tool that is no longer based on ... “We can find out what species an organism is thanks to a fragment of its DNA.

Ancient proteins and DNA may peg a 146,000-year-old Chinese skull as the most complete fossil to date from Denisovans, a puzzling line of Asian hominids.

Carmen Williams dives into the latest breakthrough in skincare, PDRN, a DNA-derived ingredient often sourced from salmon ...

A 146,000-year-old skull known as the 'dragon man', thought to be the sole representative of an ancient human species, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several years, the ...