Native Americans and Polynesians Met Around 1200 A.D.

Genetic analysis of their modern descendants shows that people from the Pacific Islands and South America…

First precise edits to mitochondrial DNA achieved with weird enzyme

Feat enables researchers to study — and perhaps treat — deadly diseases. Read more…

4 mysterious objects spotted in deep space are unlike anything ever seen

Four faint objects at radio wavelengths are highly circular and brighter along their edges. Dubbed odd…

Astronomy’s Most Perfect Ring Galaxy, Hoag’s Object, Is Still A Mystery After 70 Years

We still don’t know how it came to be this way. Read more at Forbes…