In a nutshell All modern humans share DNA from two ancient populations that split 1.5 million years ago and reunited through ...

For instance, in a 1971 essay on the history of nucleic acid research ... how the individual nucleotide components of DNA were arranged in space; discovery of the sugar-phosphate backbone of ...

Watson and Crick's discovery didn't come out of the blue. As early as 1943 Oswald Avery proved what had been suspected: that DNA, a nucleic acid, carries genetic information. But no one knew how ...

The substance discovered was named “nuclein,” which would later be called nucleic acid and eventually, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). The discovery was made in 1869 by then twenty-four ... was ...

In the first of a two-part special, Adam Rutherford and UCL geneticist Lucy van Dorp explore the last 50-100 thousand years of human evolutionary history, visible in our DNA. Show more Our genomes ...

For Women’s History Month, we celebrate the women whose discoveries paved the way for modern medicine and technology.

With the discovery of Mimivirus — the largest ... We all know that viruses have caused immeasurable suffering throughout human history. And when asked to describe a virus, most people probably ...

March 5 is a date that has witnessed significant events throughout history, spanning various categories such as politics, ...

These findings challenge the long-held narrative about migration into and out of North Africa before and during the Neolithic.

Archeologists in Denmark have made one of the most notable discoveries in recent history ... discovery," Museum Odense curator Michael Borre Lundø said to Newsweek. The museum is hoping to ...

Today, researchers from Harvard University (MA, USA) and the University of Florence (Italy) have collected DNA from the famed body casts of Pompeii and found that the history we’ve been told since the ...