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The surprising origin of sprouts, the vegetable we either love or hate

The surprising origin of sprouts, the vegetable we either love or hate

14 December 2022

Sprouts, cauliflower, cabbage and a dozen other vegetables are all the same species, Brassica oleracea. Now we have finally discovered their common ancestor
Visualizing inferred human ancestral lineages over time and space. Each line represents an ancestor-descendant relationship in our inferred genealogy of modern and ancient genomes. The width of a line corresponds to how many times the relationship is observed, and lines are colored on the basis of the estimated age of the ancestor.

A family tree of humanity released in 2022 shows how we're all related

14 December 2022

Researchers unveiled a picture of humanity’s genealogy based on 3601 modern genomes and eight ancient genomes going back 2 million years
Genetic variants may influence the likelihood we will smoke or drink alcohol

Thousands of genetic variants may influence smoking and alcohol use

7 December 2022

In a study of nearly 3.4 million people, almost 4000 genetic variants were linked to how much alcohol a person drinks a week, the age some start smoking and whether they quit the habit
Mastodons, hares, geese and reindeer in a forest

DNA from 2 million years ago is the oldest ever recovered

7 December 2022

DNA bound to mineral particles in ancient sediment reveals that north Greenland once had spruce forests populated by hares, reindeer and even mastodons

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