Lysosomes are small compartments inside cells that break down and recycle biological materials. Once regarded mainly as ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic forced in-person classroom instruction to go virtual, students suddenly needed their own laptops ...

A 113-million-year-old marine murder mystery may finally be solved. Using chemical clues locked inside microscopic fossils, ...

For around 12,000 years, the Earth has been in the Holocene epoch, a warmer period following a glacial period. During this ...

Until the Panamanian isthmus formed about 2.8 million years ago, North and South America were isolated continents with unique ...

UC Berkeley researchers have identified regions of DNA that humans inherited from two unknown ancestors as a result of ...

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have recovered and analyzed the first ancient smallpox virus genomes ever identified ...

A team led by researchers at the National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA), in Manaus, has found evidence that the ...

Biosphere reserves help curb deforestation in the Western Amazon and, taken together, have prevented the loss of more than ...

The Hiroshima blast on Aug. 6, 1945, was one of the most devastating events in human history. Like all nuclear detonations, ...

Analyzing ancient DNA from more than 500 mammoth bones, an international team of researchers found that Ice Age humans ...