DNA can survive in parchment for well over a thousand years.

Stones decorated with megalithic art were damaged in what authorities described as a significant heritage crime

Candidates would have to be resident in the country for eight years and undertake language test under proposed overhaul

Tánaiste and Minister for Finance Simon Harris has said this year's Budget will support people "who get up early every morning and go to work".

Connecting talent with opportunity in higher education

Newly recovered sheeppox sequences reveal when and how the virus emerged

Genotype imputation enables accurate detection of Neanderthal and Denisovan ancestry in low-coverage ancient genomes and allows the identification of introgressed haplotypes as well as candidate genes...

Sheeppox virus (SPPV) is a major livestock pathogen causing economic hardship through reduced production and death of vulnerable sheep, with written descriptions of sheeppox-like disease recorded sinc...

Newly recovered sheeppox sequences reveal when and how the virus emerged

Sheeppox virus (SPPV) is a major livestock pathogen causing economic hardship through reduced production and death of vulnerable sheep, with written descriptions of sheeppox-like disease recorded sinc...

Dogs, cats and other pets are expected to be allowed greater access to bus, trains and trams after the NTA announced proposals to relax existing rules on the carriage of pets on public transport.

Focus must now switch to limiting extent of overshoot, says United Nations' climate report

What wasn't said about Glen Hansard

Summary Ancient DNA studies are increasingly targeting samples that are beyond the limit of radiocarbon dating (>50 thousand years old) and are often difficult or impossible to date using other geochr...

Smallpox was a major driver of population collapse in the Americas after European contact, yet the genetic identity of the causal strains remains unknown. Here, we report the first ancient smallpox ge...

The Neolithic period in western Eurasia involved major dispersal events, including the translocation of livestock into Europe. These domestic animal translocations likely featured founder effects, fun...

Ancient genomes challenge views of close kinship in multiple Christian burials, revealing flexible traditions around children.

‘Our bodies, our lives, our right to decide’: demonstrators call for bodily autonomy and better access to healthcare

The Dáil will vote on whether to ban the blood sport tomorrow night.

Une étude interdisciplinaire menée par Annelise Binois-Roman, maîtresse de conférences à Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, en collaboration avec Kevin Daly de University College Dublin, a permis d’élucider l...

Ancient pathogen DNA from animals elucidates the origin and evolution of infectious diseases