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Waddling, wriggling, ambling, digging, laying eggs. There’s no shortage of verbiage when it comes to describing…
Nov 30
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In a new letter to the editor pulled from the prestigious scientific journal Nature, a team of Israeli researchers…
Oct 7
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On Wednesday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to scientists Emmanuelle…
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A new paper published today offers surprising insight into the American mastodon and its reactions to a changing…
Aug 6
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The Blackstone Group will buy a majority stake in the genealogy website Ancestry.com in a deal worth $4.7 billion,…
Aug 4
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A genetic analysis of ice age cave lions shows this species to be distinct from modern lions, ending a long-standing…
Jul 29
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Fox News host Tucker Carlson lashed out at tech companies and reporters Tuesday night, insisting that a pro-Trump…
Jul 23
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Mailing your spit to an ancestry site and uploading it to a DNA matching database has seemed like a pretty bad idea s…
Jul 23
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New research looks to provide a fuller retelling of the tragic, brutal past that was the transatlantic slave trade.…
Jul 15
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For archaeologists, ancient bones and stone tools are important lines of evidence, but sometimes the answers to our…
Mar 20
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From Jesus to “Jurassic Park,” people dream of resurrection, cheating death, defying nature, and uncovering the…
Mar 2
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With our deepest regrets to the Jurassic Park franchise, DNA does not preserve well, and no genetic data has ever…
Feb 20
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Before we became the only remaining humans on the planet, Homo sapiens mated with Neanderthals and the closely…
Jan 18 2020
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Using a computer-like system made from engineered DNA, scientists have computed the square root of 900.
Jan 6 2020
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The Trump administration’s plan to collect DNA evidence from migrants detained in U.S. Customs and Borders…
Dec 17 2019
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Scientists in Denmark have squeaked out an entire human genome from a prehistoric piece of “chewing gum.” Made from…
Dec 10 2019
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A third-party DNA database that began as a passion project and later became embroiled in an ongoing debate over…
Dec 9 2019
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Renowned Harvard Medical School geneticist George Church has focused his work on reversing the effects of aging,…
Nov 12 2019
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There could be a million different structures with the ability to store genetic information, according to a recent…
Oct 21 2019
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The Department of Justice released an amended regulation on Monday that allows the Trump administration to lay the…