Tardigrades are survivors. For more than 500 million years, the microscopic “water bears” have spread all over the planet and endured some of the harshest conditions Earth has to offer. Now a new ...
Scientists have discovered a 151-million-year-old fossil fly in Australia that challenges ideas about insect evolution. Named ...
Ancient DNA from Denisovans left humans a powerful genetic advantage — a gene that helped early Americans survive new ...
National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...
Genetic sharing among evolutionary neighbors all happens through hybrids: the offspring produced when individuals from two ...
In 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft brought materials from the surface of the asteroid Bennu (pictured) safely back to Earth. The returned samples were then curated carefully, to prevent the ...