The European climate service Copernicus says the world's oceans have reached their hottest temperature on record.

Ancient DNA reveals how political power and elite status may have been maintained among Iron Age nomadic societies

Researchers uncovered an enormous deep-sea accumulation of whale remains in the southeastern Indian Ocean, showing long-term, specialized ecosystems and an extensive fossil record that offers new insi...

Push for “data sovereignty” could reshape how scientists share information

Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it.

Senior Scientist (Ancient DNA lab)

Phylopic, NIH Bioart, Bioicons, Scidraw, Open Science Art, Health Icons, Servier Medical Art, Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Noun Project, Segment Anything, Excalidraw, draw.io, Biographics

People have been conditioned to believe the myth that human races are valid biological categories.

Cambridge Archaeological Journal

Data from the All of Us program confirm what many geneticists have long promoted

Faculties & Facilities

Research engineer, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University

In this analysis of biomolecular and archaeological data from a ninth-century BCE mass grave in the Carpathian Basin, Fibiger et al. find evidence for the targeted killing of mostly unrelated women an...

A rapid expansion of modern people ran into Neanderthals and mixed with them nearly to the ends of their range.

Scholars with short contracts seen as more likely to favour doing ‘safer’ work, with ‘serious ramifications’ for their disciplines

A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being.

Homo habilis, 2 million years old, was known mainly from teeth and jaw bones

Genome data provide support for the first settlement of Australia and New Guinea via at least two routes by 60,000 years ago.

Postdoctoral position in Palaeo-population genomics at the Center for the Human Past, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University

Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.

Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when

We present the first federally funded Tribal data repository — the Data for Indigenous Implementations, Interventions, and Innovations Tribal Data Repository. This repository takes a revolutionary app...

Ancient people across Southeast Asia gradually dried out and preserved their dead over a low fire

In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...

Background In-solution hybridization enrichment of genetic markers is a method of choice in paleogenomic studies, where the DNA of interest is generally heavily fragmented and contaminated with enviro...

Half-heist, half-action, all heart

Ancient proteins and DNA may peg a 146,000-year-old Chinese skull as the most complete fossil to date from Denisovans, a puzzling line of Asian hominids.

Analysis of species distribution models in a pan-African database comprising chronometrically dated archaeological sites over the past 120,000 years shows major expansion in the human niche from 70 ka...