A Ph.D. graduate student in biomolecular engineering at UC Santa Cruz, with a background in computer science and mathematics, ...

For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to ...

Raymond Jaravaza, Sunday News Reporter AFTER scooping the grand prize of Presidential Best Innovator and the Best Innovative ...

Screen-centric lifestyles may be influencing human evolution through impacts on cognition, sleep, reproduction, and the microbiome, reshaping natural selection.

For decades, the dream of fixing harmful mutations in mitochondrial DNA felt out of reach. Scientists have long known these ...

In a stunning new study, geneticists in Japan have revealed how injecting a 40,000-year-old Neanderthal gene into mice has led to profound changes in their skeletal structure. This experiment, ...

In the Ox Mountains, it is usually the sight of well-trained sheepdogs that garners our admiration, as they scoot among a flock of mountain ewes, controlling and collecting in a way that only a ...