Ancient linkups may have happened more frequently between female humans and male Neanderthals, according to an new genetic ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly ...

Department of Correction Commissioner Stanely Richards, the first formerly incarcerated person in the role, sits down with ...

Unnecessary remakes and turgid, expensive CGI-fests highlight this list of these most notorious box-office losers ...

Scientists have made the first step towards creating new species in the lab. Researchers have used artificial intelligence to create a new virus to attack a colony of the deadly E.coli bacteria. The ...

Generative AI is biology’s new playground. The technology powering popular chatbots can also dream up new, entirely novel versions of life’s most basic molecules, from DNA to proteins. Once the domain ...

Two big, important events are taking place this week. Christmas, obviously, but also the season 1 finale of Apple TV’s newest hit sci-fi show, Pluribus. Minor spoilers through Episode 8 follow.

The diversity of unicellular eukaryotes covered in the study, with their nucleus (blue) and microtubule cytoskeleton (magenta) stained. These organisms are so distantly related to each other as they ...

On a foggy Saturday morning in 1953, a tall, skinny 24-year-old man fiddled with shapes he had cut out of cardboard. They represented fragments of a DNA molecule, and young James Watson was trying to ...