Going by the headlines, the matter seems to be settled. El País announces that Neanderthal men "chose" sapiens women. Science ...

DNA studies of 1,500-year-old skeletons have revealed that ancient Koreans lived in tightly knit family networks where ...

The results are transforming how scholars understand human history. By analysing parchment, researchers are uncovering ...

Cases of Borna disease virus 1, or BoDV-1, are extremely rare in humans, but in those who develop disease the outcome is ...

Every cell in your body faces the same engineering puzzle: how to cram roughly two meters of DNA into a nucleus just a few ...

Scientists have identified a new RNA molecule that may play a key role in improving survival in cancer patients.

About 1,500 years ago, in what is now South Korea, a gruesome practice known as ‘sunjang’ dictated that servants, retainers, ...

DNA inside the nucleus is not packed as a rigid regular fiber-linker histone H1 dynamically binds and loosely "glues" ...

A metagenomic study of this cloth, controversially purported to bear the imprint of the body of Jesus Christ, has little to ...

Scientists have zoomed in on how phosphoric acid moves electrical charges so efficiently in both biology and technology. By ...

The human genome is about two meters long, yet it fits inside a nucleus only ~10 micrometers in diameter. A research team led ...