Modern humans were essentially like waves crashing on a beach, slowly but steadily eroding the beach away.” With this vivid ...

The hell ant, which was preserved in limestone, is a member ... Apr. 23, 2025 — Ancient DNA analysis challenges our understanding of the ancient Phoenician-Punic civilization. An international ...

By examining embryos from several mammals, the team discovered that ancient viral sequences hidden in DNA, long thought to be extinct, come back to life during early development. These sequences ...

Scientists have discovered DNA’s building blocks inside ancient meteorites, suggesting that life’s origins may be extraterrestrial. These space rocks, which landed on Earth billions of years ...

“It feels almost magical to be able to infer such a complete picture of an ancient ecosystem from tiny fragments of preserved DNA,” Beth Shapiro, an evolutionary biologist at the University of ...

A set of ancient wooden spears may be younger than scientists thought and wielded by Neanderthals instead of their ancestors. The complete spears made of spruce and pine are among the oldest known ...

Droplet Digital™ PCR (ddPCR™) methods are valuable and effective solutions to these challenges. In this webinar brought to you by Bio-Rad, Nathan Sepulveda will discuss ddPCR methods for measuring the ...

Consider the humble ThinkPad laptops of yore—machines beloved of corporate types ... I'm also charmed by the attempt to give an ancient laptop shell a new lease of life. If you're anything ...

May 22, 2025 — Researchers have analyzed ancient DNA from Borrelia recurrentis, a type of bacteria that causes relapsing fever, pinpointing when it evolved to spread through lice rather than ...

A Sherlock Holmes-style investigation has revealed the ancient method for the stunning pigment known as Maya blue — and it's different from a previous method uncovered nearly 20 years ago by the ...