An estimated 170,000 Australians were diagnosed with cancer in 2025. Many people know the causes of cancer are partly genetic. But how do your genes, which contribute so much of what makes you you, ...

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

When ancient DNA studies began to gain attention, little more than a decade ago, the view took hold among geneticists that ...

The team calculated that the mosquitoes likely developed their “ anthropophily ”—their taste for human blood—at a point some ...

Ancient history often feels distant and abstract, reduced to fossil fragments and textbook timelines. Yet every so often, a ...