Analysis of the genome of a 14,400-year-old woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis), recovered from the stomach of an ancient wolf, shows the species probably died out very quickly alongside a ...
Genetic variants believed to cause blindness in nearly everyone who carries them actually lead to vision loss less than 30% ...
A massive study of more than 18,000 people has revealed that "SuperAgers" – people unusually resistant to dementia in older ...
Bats, critical reservoirs of viruses with significant cross-species spillover risks, have long been understudied in the Indochina Peninsula. A study ...
Scientists have turned to artifacts associated with Leonardo da Vinci on a quest to track down the legendary polymath’s elusive DNA.
The gene variant posing the greatest genetic risk of late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) is called APOE-ε4. A different ...
Using CLASSIC, Rice researchers realized that circuits are variable, having multiple pathways to elicit the same outcome.
A male skeleton named TBH1 reveals he was killed by a quartz projectile strike about 12,000 years ago. Archaeologists ...