A new method of analyzing modern humans' DNA is revealing secrets about our extinct ancestors.

Researchers in Peru believe they have traced the origins of the Incas — the largest pre-Hispanic civilization in the Americas — through the DNA of the modern-day descendants of their emperors. From ...

For decades, scientists have largely relied on painstaking trial and error to coax proteins into crystalline forms.

Scientists have recovered a sample of DNA from a Leonardo da Vinci drawing that could belong to the Renaissance polymath. In April 2024, researchers working with the Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project ...

For decades, scientists have largely relied on painstaking trial and error to coax proteins into crystalline forms.

A red dot on a cave wall in Portugal does not look like much. It’s a small mark, crusted over by minerals, easy to miss beside the much more interesting animal figures and hand stencils made by Stone ...

Harvard scientists have built a silicon chip that writes DNA using electricity and water, pointing toward a cleaner future for DNA manufacturing and biotechnology.

Tiny, quivering spheres designed to feed and multiply raise prospect of artificial organisms to make drugs, food and fuel ...

As this year’s invertebrate of the year competition launches, we join scientists studying last year’s winner ...

Artificial intelligence has gotten a bad reputation lately, and often for good reason. But a team of scientists at Google’s DeepMind now claims to have found a revolutionary use case for AI: helping ...