I have spent years covering discoveries that nudge our origin story around the edges, but the sequencing of DNA from one of the very last Neanderthals does something different: it rewrites the center ...

A Roman-era skeleton discovered in southern England has finally given up her secrets after more than a decade of debate.

Scientists recover DNA from a 5,500-year-old burial in Colombia, revealing ancient syphilis-related bacteria and reshaping disease history.

Labs around the world are trying to turn cells into autobiographers, tracking their own development from embryos to adults. By Carl Zimmer Shortly after conception, a fertilized egg divides, becoming ...

ASTANA – The ethnic history of the Kazakh people is complex, shaped by centuries of migration, cultural interaction and ...