Scientists are trying to sequence the DNA of Leonardo da Vinci to identify if the remains at his interment site really are ...

The Age of AI will rely on massive volumes of data that can be easily stored and retrieved—and bioscience may have an ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...

Thousands of years ago, groups of ancient people made the dangerous journey across the icy land bridge of the Bering Strait ...

But a novel technique is allowing us to peer back further than DNA's expiration date in Africa, to answer long-standing ...

A reassessment of the iconic species has “some dramatic implications for how we view giraffe conservation across Africa,” a ...

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...

Projects demonstrate revolutionary information management technology and sustainable nutrition for future space missions.

In the winter of 1812, Napoleon’s once-mighty army left Russia battered, frostbitten, and starving. The infamous retreat ...

Advancements in DNA science just over the past couple years allowed police to finally make an arrest in the killing of a Thousand Oaks bank teller 26 years ago, officials said Tuesday as they ...

Science catches up to history Earlier studies had tried to identify pathogens from these remains using PCR, a DNA amplification method, but technology at the time was limited. Those tests found ...