She started out as a junior NHS doctor working in a busy hospital in South Wales before moving into academia.

Scientists think they’ve found a way to investigate the creation of cell membranes and DNA genomes that gave rise to the last universal common ancestor.

Scientists confirm meteorites contain all five DNA bases, indicating life's building blocks may have formed in space. Discover what this means for the origins of life.

When he was just a teenager trying to decide what to do with his life, César de la Fuente compiled a list of the world’s biggest problems. He ranked them inversely by how much money governments were ...

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A jawbone found in Taiwan, identified as belonging to the elusive Denisovans, challenges everything we thought we knew about ...

This world-leading Aussie researcher, expert legal witness and media commentator is forging new frontiers in forensic science.

When the town learned that Duncan, British Columbia had constructed a larger stick, threatening Minnesota’s hockey supremacy, Eveleth responded the way any self-respecting hockey town would: by going ...

An Ice Age double burial in Italy has yielded a stunning genetic revelation. DNA from a mother and daughter who lived over 12,000 years ago shows that the younger had a rare inherited growth disorder, ...

Ancient DNA from a Stone Age burial site in Sweden shows that families 5,500 years ago were more complex than expected. Many individuals buried together were not immediate family, but second- or third ...

There aren't any native lion or tiger populations living in Japan today, but this was not always the case. Fossil evidence indicates that at least one species of large cat roamed the archipelago ...

Archaeologists at the Lancashire have uncovered new details about the identity of an 11,000-year-old individual known as the ...