At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

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

Sickle cell disease is caused by a single genetic mutation that alters the shape of red blood cells. While the condition causes severe pain and health complications, carriers gain resistance to ...

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A new study suggests humans belong in an elite “league of monogamy,” ranking closer to beavers and meerkats than to ...

The power of artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced computing has made it possible to design genetic sequences encoding ...

In A Nutshell Scientists discovered a 5,500-year-old form of the bacteria that causes syphilis in remains from Colombia, the ...

The chin is one of our most familiar features, yet scientists still debate why we evolved it. Here’s a breakdown of what we ...

The findings shed new light on human reproduction and suggest pathways for developing treatments to lower the risk of ...

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...

The gender gap has hit the animal kingdom ...