Powerful new applications of what is known as next-generation sequencing are now helping with identification of degraded ...

Genetic studies point to female-centered living arrangements in Neolithic Çatalhöyük. Yet, power may not have rested solely ...

NIH’s SMaHT Network will chart trillions of somatic mutations to reveal how our DNA changes over a lifetime. In a nutshell ...

But while experts now know a fair amount about ancient Egyptian life, they still understand very little about the ...

Genetic variation also plays a major role. It doesn’t encode trauma itself, but it shapes traits such as sensitivity to ...

The Synthetic Human Genome, or Syn HG, a project launched on June 26th, aims to change that. Funded partly by Wellcome, a ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop.

Krishnamurthy Subramanian, executive VC of Afcons, on the iconic Chenab Bridge—the world’s tallest railway bridge, ...

In the third in his special series of articles exploring the enduring legacy of Tutankhamun, Zahi Hawass searches for the boy king’s relatives among mummies thought to belong to the royal family ...

President Trump’s efforts to freeze climate spending have sparked warnings of rippling consequences in years ahead. For many ...

In a groundbreaking scientific discovery, an international research team has successfully sequenced the first whole ancient ...