Tag: DNA
Overgrown sheep ‘Baarack’ gets epic quarantine haircut, loses 78 lbs. of matted wool
Months of social distancing to slow the spread of COVID-19 have kept many people from getting regular haircuts. But even the most overgrown stay-at…
70,000 never-before-seen viruses found in the human gut
Scientists have identified more than 70,000 previously unknown viruses that live in…
Hundreds of skeletons fill this remote Himalayan lake. How did they get there?
High in the Indian Himalayas, a four-to-five-day trek from the nearest village, sits an unassuming glacial lake called Roopkund. The spot is beauti…
Incredibly detailed video shows DNA twisting into weird shapes to squeeze into cells
Scientists recently captured a high-resolution video of DNA shimmying into weird shapes in order to squeeze inside cells.
Oldest sequenced DNA belonged to 1 million-year-old mystery mammoth
The oldest DNA ever decoded belonged to a mammoth from a mysterious, previously unknown lineage that lived about 1.2 million years ago, a new study…
Is anyone on Earth not an immigrant?
Human beings tend to be fascinated with their beginnings. Origin stories are found across cultures, religions, ethnicities and nationalities — an…
How many early human species existed on Earth?
We Homo sapiens didn't used to be alone. Long ago, there was a lot more human diversity; Homo sapiens lived alongside an estimate…
Devious sperm ‘poison’ their rivals, forcing them to swim in circles until they die
Some sperm cells are ruthless manipulators that will literally poi…