Tag: dna
Ancient DNA is revealing the genetic landscape of people who first...
Melinda A. Yang, University of Richmond
The very first human beings originally emerged in Africa before spreading across Eurasia about 60,000 years ago. After that,...
Museums preserve clues that can help scientists predict and analyze future...
Pamela Soltis, University of Florida; Joseph Cook, University of New Mexico, and Richard Yanagihara, University of Hawaii
In less than 20 years, communities around the...
What needs to go right to get a coronavirus vaccine in...
Marcos E. García-Ojeda, University of California, Merced
I, like many Americans, miss the pre-pandemic world of hugging family and friends, going to work and having...
Labs are experimenting with new – but unproven – methods to...
Jean Peccoud, Colorado State University
The coronavirus has ground social, economic and educational exchanges to a halt around the world. For now, public health officials...
What can you learn from studying an animal’s scat?
Verity Mathis, University of Florida
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Sneaky lions in Zambia are moving across areas thought uninhabitable for...
Caitlin J. Curry, Texas A&M University
Zambia, a country in southeast Africa, has approximately 1,200 lions, one of the largest lion populations on the...
Privacy concerns don’t stop people from putting their DNA on the...
Sarah Esther Lageson, Rutgers University
Americans are embracing the use of DNA databases to solve crimes.
Over the past year DNA submitted to ancestry websites have...
Spider glue’s sticky secret revealed by new genetic research
Sarah Stellwagen, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
What do all of the over 45,000 described spider species on Earth have in common? Each makes at...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
