Ancient DNA reveals that childhood viruses lived with humans for thousands of years, reshaping how we understand human and ...

Biologists are closing in on a puzzle that seems to turn classic evolutionary logic inside out, yet may be so common that it ...

The stray dogs that roam the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone have become unlikely protagonists in a scientific debate about how life ...

New DNA study of 777 genomes found across southern Europe and west Asia redirects the cradle of Indo-Europeans, sheds light ...

They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the ancient genomes of human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from ...

Northern elephant seals are protected by federal law, and disturbing them during fasting and breeding can cause stress, ...

Bacterial pathogenesis, evolution, and genomics intersect critically with the ongoing challenge of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which poses significant ...

A novel iLDS statistic uncovers adaptive gene sweeps in gut bacteria, highlighting evolutionary responses to modern diets and enhancing microbiome studies.

The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the ...

Pigs across the Pacific can trace their ancestry to Southeast Asian domestic pigs that accompanied early Austronesian-speaking groups as they island-hopped across the region, according to a new ...