A massive crowd-sourced family tree is helping researchers look at long-term cultural and genetic trends.

There always has been fake news, even before the term was coined, but it has become baked into the way many Americans now get their information about the world, science writer Carl Zimmer said in the inaugural AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award lecture.

The identities of some volunteers who donate personal genome sequence data for research can be revealed using only publicly available information, researchers report in the 18 January issue of Science.

New research into the genealogies of early Canadian pioneers suggests that the settlers who were first to colonize a new region produced more offspring than the settlers who followed them.