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Ancient human DNA found on cave art for the first time

DNA from ancient humans has been found on a prehistoric cave painting and on cave walls, demonstrating the potential to one day identify individual artists and resolve the debate over Neanderthals' artistic abilities

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Frozen squirrel scat preserves ancient DNA from hundreds of species

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The best new popular science books of May 2026

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Why The Double Helix is such an extraordinary but infuriating book

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The ancient Goths were an ethnically diverse group

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The surprising origins of Britain’s Bronze Age immigrants revealed

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The cassette tape made a comeback in 2025 thanks to a DNA upgrade

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A hand holding glowing prion proteins, from which fossils and microbes emerge.

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A sinister, deadly brain protein could reveal the origins of all life

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Mandatory credit Watson and Crick, discoverers of the structure of DNA. James Watson (b.1928, left) and Francis Crick (1916-2004), with their model of part of a DNA molecule in 1953. Watson and Crick met at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, in 1951. Their work on DNA was performed with a knowledge of Chargaff's ratios of the bases in DNA and access to the X-ray crystallography of Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin at King's College London. Combining this knowledge led to the deduction that DNA exists as a double helix. Crick, Watson and Wilkins shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, Franklin having died in 1958. Photographed in the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK, in May 1953.

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Surprising new biography of Francis Crick unravels the story of DNA

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James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA鈥檚 double helix, has died aged 97

As one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century, James Watson pioneered the field of genetics and left behind a complicated legacy

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DNA cassette tape can store every song ever recorded

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We are unlocking how frozen microbes stay alive for 100,000 years

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How vanishing Y chromosomes could help explain men’s ill health

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AI can decode digital data stored in DNA in minutes instead of days

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