The new analysis study showed the delay may stem from genetic mutations that are present when a child is born – but activate ...

Astronomers have traced the origin of a colossal white dwarf to a catastrophic crash between two dead stars, turning a quiet ...

In a hillside cemetery in southern Italy, the bones of a small Bronze Age community have yielded a secret that their stone graves never hinted at. Ancient DNA pulled from those remains has exposed a ...

Why does cancer sometimes recur even after successful treatment, or why do some bacteria survive despite the use of powerful ...

Nuclear fusion. People on Mars. Artificial general intelligence. These are just some of the advances that could come by the ...

WIRED spoke with DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli about the recent past—and promising future—of the Nobel Prize-winning research ...

Environmental change doesn’t affect evolution in a single, predictable way. In large-scale computer simulations, scientists ...

Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But ...

A research team has developed a new hybrid artificial intelligence framework that can accurately estimate leaf nitrogen ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

A major evolutionary theory says most genetic changes don’t really matter, but new evidence suggests that’s not true. Researchers found that helpful mutations happen surprisingly often. The twist is ...