In a February 1, 1871, letter to his best friend, botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker, Charles Darwin suggested a warm little pond was the site where primitive life first arose.¹ But the place, time, and conditions of such a pond remain unknown.

Researchers recently scanned a region of the smallest human chromosome and found three previously undiscovered families of genes that are uniquely human and completely absent from apes.¹ This new discovery continues to highlight previous research, showing that the human genome contains many human-specific genes not found in apes—utterly confounding the rapidly crumbling paradigm of h

FOX News recently ran internet and television coverage discussing the creation/evolution controversy.

About 1,600 years ago, salt miners in Iran apparently left their lamb lunch down the shaft. Their loss became scientists' gain. The now-mummified sheep carcass suggests that salt helps preserve sheepskin DNA.

Let’s say you recorded a library of books onto DNA. Hundreds of books could fit on your fingertip, but how would you find the one book you wanted?