Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

Scientists have uncovered a 400-million-year-old genetic secret that gave spiders the ability to produce silk and weave their ...

What determines how long we live—and to what extent is our lifespan shaped by our genes? Surprisingly, for decades, scientists believed that the heritability of human lifespan was relatively low ...

A QUT-led study has found how increasing aridity and habitat variation and the subsequent emergence of grasslands shaped the evolution of modern kangaroos and wallabies. The study, published in ...

Cancer doesn’t evolve by pure chaos. Scientists have developed a powerful new method that reveals the hidden rules guiding how cancer cells gain and lose whole chromosomes—massive genetic shifts that ...

Scientists at Google DeepMind —the company’s artificial intelligence research arm—say they’ve created an A.I. tool that can ...

The tool helps scientists understand how single-letter mutations and distant DNA regions influence gene activity, shaping ...