The research represents a major step forward in revealing how the three dimensional form of DNA shapes the way human biology functions. In a major step toward understanding how the physical form of ...

The findings might overturn a widely held belief that only females pose a disease risk to people, though more research is ...

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

A single microscopic change in our DNA can permanently alter how the brain is built, locking in developmental problems that ...

Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful of teeth found at the Ledi-Geraru site in Ethiopia suggest that diverse ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

Here are the five rudest things people say to stepparents — and why they miss the mark. This is often said with wide-eyed awe ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

Science moves forward on data. We all know this. But bad data leads science down dead ends. It wastes time. It wastes money.

Until recently, sedentary behaviour was mostly linked to obesity and cardiovascular disease. Now it is being implicated as a ...

There are huge gaps in our knowledge of how to survive space. A lab in north east England is trying to change that.