Photo: William Usaquen/Universidad Nacional de Colombia Panoramic view of the Altiplano, the high plains around Bogotá.

Scientists at the Institut Pasteur and McMaster University have discovered that the evolution of a gene in the bacterium that ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of years by adjusting its virulence and the length of time ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to ...

A cutting-edge technique for analyzing fossil tooth enamel is revealing remarkable new information about 2 million-year-old ...

Newly sequenced ancient genomes from Yunnan, China, have shed new light on human prehistory in East Asia. In a study ...

First detected in 2015, gravitational waves may not have had a direct hand in human evolution, but it certainly helped set ...

Despite our evolution into an age dominated by AI, automation and digital transformation, one truth remains unchanged: ...