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.

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

Fossils can reveal far more than the shapes of ancient creatures. Molecules preserved inside old animal bones provide clues about past diseases, what those animals ate, and the climates they lived in.

Jurassic Park—and its never-ending sequels and spinoffs—starts with a basic premise: extracting the DNA of long-dead ...

Abstract: The representation quantifies the geometric shape and topology of a building is a necessary procedure for many urban planning applications. A sharp line framework is a high-level structural ...

This holiday season, consider alternatives to stress ball fidget toys for your stocking stuffers. And if you have them, never ...

Abstract: Time–frequency (TF) analysis (TFA) is a valuable tool for capturing nonstationary features in time-varying signals. However, for strongly amplitude-modulated and frequency-modulated (AM–FM) ...

Can we make flame-resistant gear using DNA? Our host, Alex, uses solutions of homemade strawberry DNA and molecular-biology-standard salmon DNA to try and make three different types of yarn ...

Half a mile beneath the ocean’s surface, a secretive creature drifts in the dark. It has eight tentacles with glowing tips, and a ‘cloak’ of webbed skin that it can wrap itself up in. It is the ...

Rare earth elements are vital to new technologies and industry but hard to obtain. A new project led by UC Davis and funded by a grant from ARPA-E aims to develop acid-tolerant bacteria that can ...