A startling discovery has reignited one of science’s oldest questions: where did life truly begin? Researchers analyzing a ...

New genetic research is overturning decades of accepted beliefs about where Guam’s ancient CHamoru people came from, ...

Scientists used DNA testing on 1,200-year-old feces to detect E. coli, pinworms, and Giardia in ancient Mexico, and found ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have unearthed 6,000-year-old human skeletons in Colombia that possess a DNA ...

DNA shines a light back into the past, showing us things that fossils can't. But how far back can that light extend? Some of the oldest DNA sequences come from mastodon and polar bear fossils about 50 ...

The human body relies on precise genetic instructions to function, and cancer begins when these instructions get scrambled.

The genetic link between bones discovered thousands of miles away from each other suggests a prehistoric migration route.

Researchers at a Harvard Medical School laboratory are uncertain how they will continue supporting a large public genetic database after its primary source of funding expired last month.

Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans break the conventions for how species should be named – but Bae argues the r ...

Human remains found in an abandoned home in Georgia nearly four years ago have been identified by Othram, a forensic laboratory, as Christopher Lamont Williams ...

Near the end of his reign, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led an army of over half a million men in an invasion of Russia ...

Summer McKesson’s quest for answers to her medical condition would unearth a family secret – and a doctor’s decades-old deception that has ensnared multiple families across the country.