When a nuclear disaster empties a landscape of people, nature doesn’t politely wait for instructions. It moves in. After the ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there ...

Insect-human hybrids provide the scares at the 2026 Insect Fear Film Festival at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.The festival, which is ...

Can Ben Lamm save the planet? He thinks so. Short, stocky and unassuming with a puckish sense of humor, the shaggy-haired ...

Ancient linkups may have happened more frequently between female humans and male Neanderthals, according to an new genetic ...

A preference for pairings between male Neanderthals and female Homo sapiens may answer the question of why there are "Neanderthal deserts" in human chromosomes.

When ancient humans mated, dad was a Neanderthal, mom was Homo sapiens.

Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly ...

Genes are short sections of DNA that determine an animal’s traits—everything from coat color and claw strength to body shape ...

Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly ...

Most of our Neanderthal ancestors may have been male, according to an new genetic analysis. Scientists looked at the human genes that got interspersed with Neanderthal ones during an ancient mating ...