Figuring out the ages of stars is fundamental to understanding many areas of astronomy—yet, it remains a challenge since ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

Researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Columbia University ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk ...

The arrow of time can teach us more about how the universe began – and how it will end, says quantum columnist Karmela ...

They are some of the most intensely studied species on Earth, and yet there is no comprehensive molecular phylogenetic hypothesis of primate evolutionary history that summarizes the pattern and timing ...

For over half a billion years, Earth’s magnetic field has risen and fallen in sync with oxygen levels in the atmosphere, and scientists are finally uncovering why. A NASA-led study reveals a striking ...

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?