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Ancient DNA reveals 1,000 years of human–environment interactions at Crawford Lake
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (953+ words) Binghamton anthropologist part of international team that reconstructed 1,000 years of ecological change and human activity image: Scientists lower a hollow metal tube (a freeze core) filled with dry ice and ethanol to collect sediment samples from the lake bottom. Like…...
Scientists capture two DNA strands zipping together for the first time
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (483+ words) Tiny Ions Help DNA Overcome Repulsion Professor Agnes Noy, from the School of Physics, Engineering and Technology at the University of York, co-led the research. She said: "This discovery could help researchers identify regions of the genome specially involved in…...
Scientists Say the “Lizard Brain” Is a Myth, But the Truth About How Our Brains Evolved May Be Even Stranger
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (1390+ words) One of the most popular explanations of human behavior has been that somewhere beneath our rational mind lurks an ancient “lizard brain”—a primitive evolutionary holdover responsible for instinct, emotion, fear, and aggression. There is just one problem. Neuroscientists have…...
Ancient DNA reveals 1,000 years of human–environment interactions at Crawford Lake - Binghamton News
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (829+ words) By analyzing sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) samples found preserved in the lake bottom sediment, scientists were able to reconstruct a diverse, high-resolution dataset of the entire ecosystem surrounding the lake – including plants, animals, bacteria, and fungi – and map changes over…...
Ancient DNA reveals 1,000 years of human???environment interactions at Crawford Lake
4+ day, 16+ hour ago (972+ words) By analyzing sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) samples found preserved in the lake bottom sediment, scientists were able to reconstruct a diverse, high-resolution dataset of the entire ecosystem surrounding the lake – including plants, animals, bacteria, and fungi – and map changes over…...
Natural selection shapes genomes across great ape species
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (713+ words) In the most comprehensive survey of natural selection across our closest living relatives to date, an international team of researchers has mapped the genomic landscapes of adaptation in six great ape lineages, revealing new candidate genes tied to senses, immunity,…...
Neanderthals did not disappear simply because the climate turned cold or Homo sapiens defeated them—a 2026 Université de Montréal-led modelling study found that their habitats largely survived the climate swings, but some regional networks were too weakly connected to absorb the demographic and environmental shocks that better-connected Homo sapiens populations endured.
1+ week, 15+ hour ago (1502+ words) A Europe-wide habitat model suggests climate shifts moved Neanderthal refuges without erasing them, while weak links among some regions may have made small populations harder to rescue after local shocks. By Natural History · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 5, 2026 · How…...
The Image of Neanderthals as a Species Exclusively Adapted to the Cold Is False: This Was What Led Them to Extinction
1+ week, 6+ day ago (1163+ words) A global study suggests that climate change was not the main cause of Neanderthal extinction and points to competition with Homo sapiens as the determining factor. An international team of researchers has published a study that questions one of the…...
Can Mammoths Return? Scientists Launch Unexpected Plan
1+ week, 6+ day ago (172+ words) Could the legendary giant of the Ice Age — the woolly mammoth — reappear in the future? The US-based company Colossal Biosciences is studying the DNA of ancient mammoths and working to combine their key traits with the modern elephant genome. The…...
The last woolly mammoths survived on Wrangel Island until about 4,000 years ago, and a 2024 genetic study found inbreeding had not doomed them to a slow decline — their population appears to have vanished suddenly, for reasons that remain unresolved
2+ week, 9+ hour ago (739+ words) A thriving population of woolly mammoths vanished abruptly from a remote island, defying every expectation about how small, isolated groups collapse. By Life Signs · Edited by Mal James Published August 29, 2026 · How we edit A small group of woolly mammoths clung…...