High on the sheer limestone cliffs in southwest China, ancient wooden coffins remain wedged into rock faces hundreds of feet ...

An ancient asteroid older than Earth itself has reignited debate over whether life began in space. NASA's Bennu discovery ...

These genes are part of the non-coding genome, which makes up about 98% of our DNA and was long dismissed as “junk.” This new ...

A new study from the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) in London, UK reveals how ancient viral DNA once written off as ...

Genetic ancestry is a concept that has long captured people’s imaginations. It’s no surprise that it’s been turned into a ...

Attorney General Peter Neronha said in a situation of chaos, witnesses are going to have different accounts. Right now, they ...

A DNA study of a Bronze Age cave in Calabria sheds light on early populations that lived in southern Italy centuries before Greek settlement.

The identity of a Roman-era individual found in southern England has finally been resolved after scientists at the Natural ...

New research reveals a link between rising temperatures and changes in polar bear DNA, which may be helping them adapt and survive in increasingly challenging environments.  The study by scientists at ...

Reptiles on a Mexican island were considered an invasive species, but DNA evidence proves they beat humans to the island by hundreds of thousands of years. By Jude Coleman On a Mexican island in the ...

Lily Wood is forty-three years old but considers April 9, 2019, to be her “rebirth day.” That was the date she received her results from Ancestry, the direct-to-consumer DNA-testing company. A ...

Cathy Herbrand receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council. Ten years after the UK became the first country to legalise mitochondrial donation, the first results from the use of ...