On Wednesday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to scientists Emmanuelle…

A new paper published today offers surprising insight into the American mastodon and its reactions to a changing…

The Blackstone Group will buy a majority stake in the genealogy website Ancestry.com in a deal worth $4.7 billion,…

A genetic analysis of ice age cave lions shows this species to be distinct from modern lions, ending a long-standing…

Fox News host Tucker Carlson lashed out at tech companies and reporters Tuesday night, insisting that a pro-Trump…

Mailing your spit to an ancestry site and uploading it to a DNA matching database has seemed like a pretty bad idea s…

New research looks to provide a fuller retelling of the tragic, brutal past that was the transatlantic slave trade.…

For archaeologists, ancient bones and stone tools are important lines of evidence, but sometimes the answers to our…

From Jesus to “Jurassic Park,” people dream of resurrection, cheating death, defying nature, and uncovering the…

With our deepest regrets to the Jurassic Park franchise, DNA does not preserve well, and no genetic data has ever…

Before we became the only remaining humans on the planet, Homo sapiens mated with Neanderthals and the closely…

Using a computer-like system made from engineered DNA, scientists have computed the square root of 900.

The Trump administration’s plan to collect DNA evidence from migrants detained in U.S. Customs and Borders…

Scientists in Denmark have squeaked out an entire human genome from a prehistoric piece of “chewing gum.” Made from…

A third-party DNA database that began as a passion project and later became embroiled in an ongoing debate over…

Renowned Harvard Medical School geneticist George Church has focused his work on reversing the effects of aging,…

There could be a million different structures with the ability to store genetic information, according to a recent…

The Department of Justice released an amended regulation on Monday that allows the Trump administration to lay the…

Scientists have created a new gene-editing technique that overcomes some of the biggest drawbacks of the popular…

A comprehensive analysis of DNA from modern Melanesian people suggests an assortment of mutated genes inherited from…