Rural Hall, NC - Six years after her remains were found by a hunter, the DNA Doe Project has identified Rural Hall Jane Doe ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

In a Quebec courtroom last October, Sylvie Desjardins delivered a message to her daughter's killer that was 30 years in the ...

The "Dragon Man" skull reveals groundbreaking insights into Denisovans' genetics, appearance, and impact on modern humans.

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

A 4,500-year-old burial in Middle Egypt has reshaped what scientists know about ancient Egyptian origins. Inside a sealed limestone tomb near Beni Hasan, researchers uncovered the remains of a man ...

An international research team has identified a human protein, ANKLE1, as the first DNA-cutting enzyme (nuclease) in mammals capable of detecting and responding to physical tension in DNA. This ...

Two different human species meet tens of thousands of years ago. Modern humans, fresh from Africa, encounter their stockier, cold-adapted cousins in what is now Europe. Did this initial meeting lead ...

The bowhead whale’s remarkable lifespan and low cancer risk stem from a finely tuned DNA repair system driven by a unique protein, CIRBP. Scientists found that this mechanism not only preserves the ...

When the rodent cGAS enzyme was inserted into human and mouse cells in the laboratory, the researchers observed that it significantly enhanced the cells' ability to repair DNA and in turn reduced the ...