DNA captured on air filters and stored since the 1960s acts as an ecological time capsule, according to a recent publication ...

Ancient DNA is finally putting hard numbers on a mystery that has trailed humanity for millennia: when our most familiar ...

An ancient woman thought to have hailed from sub-Saharan Africa and therefore to have been the first known Black Briton actually had fairer skin and was from southern England, researchers using new ...

Imagine a container of tomatoes arriving at the container terminal in Aarhus. The papers state that the tomatoes are from ...

In genetics, scientists must analyze the genomes of millions, if not billions, of people, each carrying millions of variants.

After conducting a DNA analysis on the remnants, researchers identified a pair of father and son in the collection, who could ...

Cats were domesticated in North Africa, but spread to Europe only about 2,000 years ago. Earlier reports of “house” cats were ...

D microscopy shows that the giant bacterium Thiovulum imperiosus squeezes its DNA into peripheral pouches, not a central mass ...

Investigators tracked a suspect in a decades-old Boston murder case to a parking lot, where they nabbed his DNA from spit.