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Genetics

Excavation of the slave quarters at Belvoir.

How DNA From a 200-Year-Old Pipe Connects Maryland and Sierra Leone

Genetics has many stories to tell about enslaved people.

Evan Nicole Brown March 19, 2019

More complicated than they look.

Science Finds the Cross-Continental Origins of Beer Yeast

Ales and lagers have ancestry in both Europe and Asia.

Matthew Taub March 6, 2019

A most modern <em>Mongolanthropus</em>.

This Skull Is Both Older and More Modern Than We Thought

Mongolanthropus was one of us.

Matthew Taub January 31, 2019

The blue-eyed coyote that Dietrich first photographed on January 28, 2018.

Blue-Eyed Coyotes Have Been Spotted on the California Coast

The striking mutation is a bit of a mystery.

Noor Al-Samarrai January 29, 2019

Is it a tomato or is it a chili?

Scientists Are Using CRISPR to Make Spicy Tomatoes

The fruit could soon look and taste more like chili peppers.

Rohini Chaki January 10, 2019

<em>Armillaria gallica</em> can get very, very big.

The Original 'Humungous Fungus' Is Even Bigger and Older Than We Thought

But it's not the biggest.

Matthew Taub October 12, 2018

Checking on grape vines at the Domaine de Vassal in Marseillan, France.

The ‘Wine Archive’ That Quietly Improves the World’s Wine

A collection of more than 7,000 grapevine varieties is a boon to vintners and scientists.

Eric J. Wallace October 11, 2018

The tiny bone fragment known as "Denisova 11" that yielded these unexpected results.

Found: Remains of a Half-Neanderthal, Half-Denisovan Ancient Human

We finally have first-generation evidence that our ancestors interbred.

Matthew Taub August 22, 2018

Mountain gorillas face many risks.

A Gorilla Poop Treasure Hunt Through Central Africa's Virunga Volcanoes

How researchers collect genetic info without disturbing the majestic primates.

Jessica Leigh Hester June 6, 2018

<em>Solanum galapagense</em>, one of two species of tomato native to the Galapagos.

Galapagos Tomatoes Are Surprisingly Pest-Resistant

New research reveals that they can protect themselves from a number of common bugs.

Cara Giaimo April 27, 2018

Eratap beach, on the island of Efate in Vanuatu.

What Ancient DNA Can Tell Us About the Settlement of Vanuatu

A mismatch between genetics and language has baffled researchers for decades.

Natasha Frost March 5, 2018

One of a kind?

How Many Species of Ravens Are There?

It's surprisingly hard to tell.

Jessica Leigh Hester March 2, 2018

Immortalizing Human Scents as Memory Perfumes

Bodily odors are forever.

Christina Ayele Djossa February 26, 2018

A colony of Flavobacterium IR1 in a agar plate.

In the Future, We May Paint With Brightly Colored Bacteria

Researchers have cracked the genetic code behind nature's structural colors, allowing them to be replicated fast.

Christina Ayele Djossa February 20, 2018

In Myotis bats, telomeres don't shorten with age.

The Bats That Never Get Old

They eventually die, but their cells stay forever young.

Jessica Leigh Hester February 8, 2018

Researchers studied 662 craniums.

The Curious Case of the Shrinking Moose Skulls

Researchers studied 40 years of craniums on an island in Lake Superior.

Jessica Leigh Hester December 29, 2017

Carol Ann, the daughter of Joan Barry, is photographed before the opening of a highly-publicized paternity suit involving Charlie Chaplin. A lawyer presented blood tests as evidence.

Why Scientists Once Used Taste Tests as Paternity Tests

Sensitivity to bitterness was thought to be entirely genetic.

Paula Mejia December 28, 2017

Polar deserts, such as Antarctica's Wright Valley, are some of the most extreme environments in the world.

The Mighty Antarctic Microbes That Survive on Air Alone

It turns out the “minimal nutritional requirements for life” are quite minimal indeed.

Jessica Leigh Hester December 19, 2017