When archaeologists lifted a set of fragile bones from a Colombian rock shelter, they expected to add a few more data points ...

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Over the past decades, a growing number of robotics teams have started developing modular robots inspired by the ancient paper-folding art of origami. More recently, some of these teams started ...

Every human face is different, but scientists still know surprisingly little about how our DNA shapes these differences. To ...

Scientists mapped the Bas63 bacteriophage in unprecedented detail, uncovering how its tail machinery infects bacteria. The ...

A tiny Crimean bone links Neanderthals to Siberia, revealing long-distance networks shaped by shifting climates and migration ...

A new study of ancient dog DNA shows that people and dogs traveled together across Eurasia for at least 10,000 years.

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Long before modern humans built cities or carved out farms, woolly mammoths wandered across frozen plains with thick coats ...

New research shows RNA is preserved for longer than scientists had realized. This is the oldest RNA ever profiled.

Ancient dog skulls and DNA reveal a surprising diversity in shape and size over 10,000 years ago, long before modern breeds.