This 30-million-year-long gap is actually rather helpful to Darwin. It means that there was plenty of time for the ancestor ...

In a first, scientists have extracted DNA from a Renaissance-era drawing attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, but they can't be ...

A new CRISPR breakthrough shows scientists can turn genes back on without cutting DNA, by removing chemical tags that act ...

Researchers are trying to understand why some wild species do better than others over time, as the environment changes.

Cells live in a world of chaos, constantly buffeted by random molecular jolts that can derail even the most carefully tuned ...

A reduced genome in an island species raises evolutionary questions.