For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as “junk,” thought to serve no real purpose. In a new study in Cell ...

Thousands of years ago, groups of ancient people made the dangerous journey across the icy land bridge of the Bering Strait ...

Scientists have long debated how modern humans evolved. For decades, most researchers agreed that Homo sapiens came from one ancestral group in Africa, dating back 200,000 to 300,000 years. But ...

Given the skull’s age and backstory, Fu said she knew it would be challenging to extract ancient DNA from the fossil to better understand where it fit in the human family tree.

Elizabeth Rayne Thu, April 10, 2025 at 5:00 AM PDT 4 min read Scientists Found Mummies with Different DNA Tomekbudujedomek - Getty Images ...

One person's junk is another's treasure. An international team of scientists have found that strings of "junk" DNA in the human genome that were previously written off as having no useful function ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop. Until recently, many fast-changing parts of the human genome remained ...