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

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

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

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

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

For years, researchers have tried to harness the "twist" of light to transmit data. This property describes how light spirals ...

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 ...