Ancient evidence suggests a new twist in how we all got here.

Learning to read and write is the beginning of literacy, a progression now mirrored in modern genomics. Scientists first read the human genome, a three-billion-letter biological book, in April 2003.

DNA contains foundational information needed to sustain life. Understanding how this information is stored and organized has been one of the greatest scientific challenges of the last century. With ...

A new paper published today (April 24) in the journal Nature by an international team of 279 scientists led by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew presents the most up-to-date understanding of the ...

Mission-critical systems: “Our supercomputing system, which includes the servers, the storage and the computer farm [800 interconnected Compaq Alpha-based, 64-bit systems, each of which can perform ...