Humanity could be brought back from extinction in millions of years after a person’s genome was etched on a crystal and ...

For now, the human genome-encoded “5D memory crystal” is stored in the Memory of Mankind archive, a time capsule project ...

Scientists in the United Kingdom have stored the entire human genome on a “5D memory crystal,” in the hope that it could be ...

What does it mean to be human? For a long ... we were better versions. That picture is now changing. In recent years, ...

Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed ...

Within bacterial cells, specialized immune systems known as retrons fend off viral attacks. But that's not all they can do.

This showed that DNA had a helix shape. Without her knowledge, one of her colleagues showed the picture to James Watson ... cytosine and guanine. All human cells contain DNA.

Fossil Hotspots in Africa Obscure a More Complete Picture of Human Evolution Aug. 20, 2024 — A new study shows how the mismatch between where fossils are preserved and where humans likely lived ...

A team of researchers from the University of Cape Town (South Africa) and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary ...

Our Human Evolution gallery explores the origins of Homo sapiens, tracing our lineage since it split from that of our closest living relatives, the chimpanzee and the bonobo. Gallery developer Jenny ...

"Because the evidence of early human evolution comes from a small range of sites, it's important to acknowledge that we don't have a complete picture of what happened across the entire continent ...

An analysis of tissue samples from nearly 1,200 older adults found that the more insertions individuals had, the younger they died.