The cloudberry, a popular northern dessert berry, reveals a surprising genetic origin after a study deciphers its complex evolution.

Land plants—such as mosses, ferns and trees—are some of the most structurally complex photosynthesizing organisms on Earth. But their evolutionary story is deeply tied to their ancestors: simpler ...

It’s long past time to stop thinking of humanity’s nearest relatives as forming a family tree. Our close relatives like the Neanderthals and Denisovans clearly interbred both with us and each other.

New computational modeling of avian influenza variants' immunoprotein interactions—developed by a research team at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte—reveals the H5N1 influenza virus is ...

As the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2) Omicron variant makes its way across the world, it is one of five variants of concern that has made it challenging to end the ...

A study of the Mani Peninsula reveals that over half of local men share a paternal lineage reaching back to the early medieval era.