Bones found at the site of an ancient fish-processing plant were used to genetically identify the species that went into a ...

In the dry, windswept valleys of Northern Chile, two ancient skeletons are changing how scientists understand the history of ...

As the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital is gradually returning to normalcy nearly three weeks after Air India flight AI 171 crashed ...

Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely ...

Researchers discovered a previously unknown function of RNA, potentially opening the door to new ways to treat cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.

In 1931, the Skhūl I fossil was uncovered at Mugharat es-Skhūl (the Cave of the Children), also known as Skhūl Cave, Israel.

By analyzing ancient DNA, scientists determined when, where and how our ancestors got sick from infectious diseases.

A rare form of leprosy may have existed in the Americas long before European colonization, according to new research using ...

From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body's ...