The Age of AI will rely on massive volumes of data that can be easily stored and retrieved—and bioscience may have an ingenious solution.

Often referred to as the ‘gold of the North’, Baltic amber serves as an exceptional natural time capsule, preserving a ...

In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several years, the team, lead by Ludovic Slimak, found more of the ...

Our increasingly digitized world has a data storage problem. Hard drives and other storage media are reaching their limits, ...

Beginning in early 2014, many newborns in Boston will have their entire genomes sequenced as a part of a five-year study to explore the effect of DNA sequencing on their future medical care. The study ...

For decades, scientists thought the noncoding parts of DNA were useless leftovers. Today, that view has completely changed.

When scientists want to trace how a species has changed over time—and predict its prospects for survival—they turn to DNA.

Recent discoveries in Colombia have unveiled a previously unknown human DNA lineage in ancient remains, offering fascinating ...

Credit: Gerardo Peña, INAH. For the first time in tropical latitudes, scientists have sequenced ancient DNA from the only mammoth endemic to North and Central America: the Columbian mammoth. The ...