Author: Meghan Rosen

Ancient RNA from Yuka, a 40,000-year-old woolly mammoth preserved in permafrost, can offer new biological insights into the Ice Age animal’s life.

An AI tool trained on chemical signatures from corpse-eating insects may help determine time and place of death for victims of violent crimes.

Cancer patients who got an mRNA COVID vaccine within a few months of their immunotherapy lived longer than those who did not, health records show.

Glioblastoma doesn’t just affect the brain. It also erodes bones in the skull and changes the composition of immune cells in skull marrow.

DNA from Napoleonic soldiers’ teeth uncovered two fever-causing bacteria that may have worsened the army’s fatal retreat from Russia.

Using a scratch-and-sniff test, researchers discovered that smell loss after COVID-19 may linger for more than two years.