Rivers up and down the north coast of New South Wales have been hammered again, just three years after devastating floods hit ...

A single Neanderthal gene slipped into lab mice triggered unexpected changes in their skeletons. Scientists in Japan uncovered traits echoing long-lost human cousins.

Colossal uses gene editing to bring dire wolves back from extinction, marking a breakthrough in de-extinction science with the birth of Romulus and Remus.

The creator of CRISPR babies is flirting again with infamy, this time through a mysterious alliance with an Internet-savvy ...

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate. Researchers have identified a genetic variant that contributed to the ...

In a classic mix up, geneticist Varun Johnson from the Human Genome Project research team accidentally mixed his DNA with the mouse DNA that he was attempting to extract and replicate. The result ...

Vitamin D supplements may help prevent the loss of telomeres, DNA sequences that shrink with aging, a large study shows. But ...

In a scientific first, researchers from around 29 universities and institutions across North America have teamed up to create ...

Rapidly mutating DNA regions were mapped using a multi-generational family and advanced sequencing tools. Understanding how ...

Ancestry and lifestyle choices of parents may affect the rate and type of new genetic changes that arise in their children, ...

Researchers work in a mobile Fire-Eye laboratory in Beijing in June 2020. The labs can identify coronavirus infections, as well as decipher and analyze human DNA. (Fu Tian/China News Service/Getty ...

There’s something unsettling about the way we encounter nature in the modern age, through Perspex, signage and carefully curated simulations. In The Anthropocene Illusion, Zed Nelson’s new photography ...