"This initiative is a critical step toward providing long-awaited closure for a family who has suffered the loss of a loved ...

It’s been nearly three decades since Atlanta-born child beauty pageant queen JonBenet Ramsey was brutally killed in her Colorado home. Her family now hopes advances in DNA technology can help solve ...

Scientists at UC Santa Cruz have completed the first end-to-end genome of the iconic Pacific banana slug, a species ...

About 19,000 years ago, a woman from a group of hunter-gatherers died and was buried in a cave in northern Spain. In 1996, ...

Peru: Village built around a small oasis and surrounded by sand dunes in southwestern Peru!

Scientists at deCODE genetics have unveiled a groundbreaking map of human DNA mixing during reproduction, offering insights into genetic diversity, health, and fertility. Credit: SciTechDaily.com ...

Comparison of that ancient DNA with modern human DNA showed that the two species had interbred and that people today still carry the genetic fingerprint of that intermixing. Since then ...

President-elect Donald Trump on Monday plans to declare a “national energy emergency” that would give him authority to increase U.S. energy production, including opening up drilling in Alaska ...

Of course, though, testing a child's parentage based on physical features is far too subjective — that's typically where DNA tests come in. Such tests can offer a far more scientific way of ...

Sharkmob's new extraction shooter promises to be a more accessible and forgiving experience than most other games in the genre.

They drilled down almost two miles to extract 2.8-km of ice core, reaching the actual bedrock beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. The air bubbles trapped inside the ice are “like tiny time capsules ...