Colibactin is a powerful toxin produced by Escherichia coli and other bacteria living in the human gut. This highly unstable ...

The Jomon people—who eventually settled in what is now Japan—share little, if any, genetic connection to the Denisovan population that’s spread throughout Eurasia.

Inside human cells, biology has pulled off the ultimate packing job, figuring out how to fit six feet of DNA into a nucleus ...

Learn more about what how humans ended up having Neanderthal DNA in their genome and what it means if you have it.

Centuries-old genetic material can solve historical mysteries, from lost species to what killed Napoleon’s army.

The first humans arrived upon the landmass now known as Australia around 60,000 years ago along two distinct routes, ...

DNA: it carries hereditary information, it helps solve crimes, and now it can act as a flame retardant? What can’t this ...

The modern house cat reached China in the 8th century. Before that, another cat — the leopard cat — hunted the rodents in ancient Chinese settlements.

The answers were always there, waiting as the years and decades ticked by: Who killed five people kidnapped from a Kentucky ...

Kian Sadeghi’s company offers to screen embryos not only for disease, but for characteristic from height to hair and eye color and intelligence, with the idea of not only a healthier child, but what ...