Sephardi Jews flourished for centuries in Muslim Spain and Portugal, creating a luminous culture of poetry, science, and ...

With a new generation of fast and affordable gene sequencers, researchers are better equipped than ever to tackle Earth’s ...

While excavating at the ancient fort of La Loma in the northern Iberian Peninsula, archaeologists found the shattered ...

The police thought they were on the trail of sophisticated art thieves. The Belgian adventurer Honoré Joseph Géry Pieret had sold a Paris newspaper an Iberian statuette that he had stolen from the ...

Two weeks’ walk can be an eternity in prehistory. In southern France’s Rhône Valley, a Neanderthal by the name of “Thorin” lived and died without his people ever meeting or exchanging a single gene ...

How can the same whisky become two completely different drams? SMWS's new Diptych collection reveals wood's transformative ...

Now, a new DNA analysis of a sprawling set of ancient feline remains reveal that the precursors to modern housecats ...

The name Colin Pitchfork might not be as recognizable as Charles Manson or Jeffrey Dahmer. But for those in the forensic science community, it’s a name that holds weight. Pitchfork was the first ...

DNA methylation involves adding a methyl group to DNA, which may influence gene expression and affect health aspects like childhood development and aging. Lifestyle factors, especially diet, may ...

In 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft brought materials from the surface of the asteroid Bennu (pictured) safely back to Earth. The returned samples were then curated carefully, to prevent the ...

DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the nucleic acid polymer that forms the genetic code for a cell or virus. Most DNA molecules consist of two polymers (double-stranded) of four nucleotides that each ...

Warning of a "crisis point", the European Commission has announced an action plan against criminal traffickers, with a focus on innovation.View on euronews ...