Powerful new applications of what is known as next-generation sequencing are now helping with identification of degraded ...

Preserving strips of native vegetation beside avocado orchards gives insects a buffet of wild pollen when blossoms are scarce ...

Akihiko Yamamoto recently connected with his American sister, Sharon Lovell, whom he never knew existed. For most of his life ...

New breakthroughs in DNA analysis offer a chance to identify more of the lost from wars and disasters stretching back decades ...

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the full genome of a 4,800-year-old Egyptian man. The DNA reveals North African ...

New DNA evidence has led to the arrest of a 72-year-old man accused of killing his girlfriend more than four decades ago.

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have reconciled two closely related but contentious mechanisms underlying ...

This discovery supports long-suspected ties between Egypt and Mesopotamia, once inferred only from trade goods and shared ...

Teresa Peroni, 27, vanished on July 3, 1983, in Oregon after an argument with her former boyfriend, who is now 72 and living ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Many questions remain after Bryan Kohberger decided to plead guilty to the murders of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana ...

A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.