Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely ...

When the Empire State Building was constructed, its 102 stories rose above midtown one piece at a time, with each individual ...

Franklin W. Stahl, an American molecular biologist whose landmark 1957-58 experiment with colleague Matthew Meselson revealed ...

The state is putting up more than $7 million to pay for genetic testing for newborns under the Sunshine Genetics Act.

The foundation, Identiteit Gezocht (Identity Sought), aims to list all unknown graves on the coasts of the North Sea, hoping ...

Recent DNA analysis from excavations in China, Central Asia, and Hungary has uncovered the origins of the marauding Huns who ...

The acronym is short for English composer Henry Purcell’s Dido And Aeneas, but the classic 17th-century opera of spurned love ...

Ancient DNA evidence shows that the advent of agriculture led to more infectious disease among humans, with pathogens from ...

A judge ordered the DNA of a man accused of sexually assaulting three young girls to be collected Wednesday and tested ...

A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has ...

Creating genomes from DNA is hugely important for managing threatened species—understanding their past and how they have ...

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