The DNA in a single cup of water can track wildlife, monitor pollution and survey pathogens in waterways and their ...

An international team of cave explorers has shown that cave walls and the prehistoric rock art that adorns them can preserve human DNA for thousands of years. Using sterilized scalpels and two layers ...

DNA traces found in fragments of the Shroud collected in 1978 and now reanalyzed have revealed multiple environmental ...

An international research team has recovered ancient human mitochondrial and nuclear DNA directly from cave wall materials in ...

The government is teaming up with Colossal Biosciences, a private company that claims to have revived extinct dire wolves, to store samples from at-risk animals and plants. By Carl Zimmer and Catrin ...

The remains of a long-missing millionaire, who vanished from her California home amid a cloud of suspicious circumstances, ...

This is your regular reminder that science is a many-splendoured thing. As well, a reminder that scientific study, however specialized, can bring a huge variety of benefits — so ...

Throughout human ecological history, we have played a variety of roles within ecosystems around the world. In this so-called ...

This is your regular reminder that science is a many-splendoured thing.

Discover how synthetic biology is enabling the large-scale manufacturing of lab-made biological products through advanced ...