A fossilized jaw bone and teeth from Western Europe are recognized as the oldest modern human fossils recovered in the region.
A fossilized jaw bone and teeth from Western Europe are recognized as the oldest modern human fossils recovered in the region.
Researchers diagnose the second oldest known case of prostate cancer in a two-thousand-year-old-Egyptian mummy.
Bacteria age, but as a lineage, can live forever.
The widespread bacteria known to manipulate host reproductive output can do so by ramping up stem cell division and consequent egg production in Drosophila.
A bevy of genes known to be active during human fetal and infant development first appeared at the same time that the prefrontal cortex—the area of the brain associated with human intelligence and personality—took shape in primates, a new study publi
The largest virus to be sequenced prompts researchers to consider whether giant viruses were once full-fledged living organisms.
Two genome-wide studies, backed up by field experiments, identify SNPs that correlate with Arabidopsis fitness in various climates.
Twenty-five years later, the magazine is still hitting many of the same key discussion points of science.
Epigenetic perturbations could jump-start heritable variation.