The remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.

DNA offers new clues about ancient human societies.

NASA’s SPHEREx mission is mapping the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, turning raw space data into a public tool for ...

NIH’s SMaHT Network will chart trillions of somatic mutations to reveal how our DNA changes over a lifetime. In a nutshell ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Teeth from an elderly man who lived around the time that the earliest pyramids were built have yielded the first full human ...

In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...