All life on Earth shares a common ancestor that lived roughly four billion years ago. This so-called "last universal common ...

Genetic research does not always produce tidy answers. Sometimes it reveals traces that raise more questions than they settle ...

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...

Peer-reviewed / Observational study / PeopleExposure to burn injuries played key role in shaping human evolution, study suggestsHumans' exposure to ...

Some say the study's findings have "important consequences for ageing research", while others believe they are "not too ...

How big of a role do our genes play in our lifespan? Quite a bit more than previously thought, a new study suggests.

Every step you take depends on a structure most people rarely think about. The pelvis sits at the center of the body and ...

Imagine someone digs you up in 15,000 years and discovers what you had for lunch the day that you died. That’s more or less ...

Coral reefs make up less than 1% of ocean habitat but are home to at least 25% of marine species. These incredibly biodiverse ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related ...