Scientists have uncovered an enormous hidden archive of plant DNA that has endured for more than 400 million years. By comparing hundreds of plant genomes, researchers identified more than 2.3 million ...

For over six centuries, the Shroud of Turin has been a cherished Christian artifact. Millions have gazed upon this faint ...

You’ve heard of deep space, but what about deep time? Today’s geneticists and evolutionary biologists can extend their investigations further back in time than ever imagined. Still, many mysteries ...

A ground-breaking study has traced thousands of conserved regulatory elements back 300 million years, revealing deep principles of plant genome evolution – a discovery that could pave the way for more ...

Cuneiform tablets list myriad plants imported from around the Near East that were cultivated in the gardens of Mesopotamian kings during the first millennium b.c. Since the Akkadian and Sumerian names ...

A groundbreaking genomic study has added a provocative new chapter to the centuries-old mystery of the Shroud of Turin.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A glowing, digital double helix represents the billions of base pairs scientists analyze when sequencing ancient DNA. In 1976, ...

For millions of years, fireflies have relied on a precise chemical ballet to signal for mates in the summer dusk. Meanwhile, ...

Paintings from ancient Egypt show the harvesting of grapes and the making of wine. Mesopotamian murals illustrate elites rai ...