Many large mammals have lost genetic diversity, often thanks to the actions of people shrinking their populations. The ...

The skeletal remains of a senior officer of Sir John Franklin's 1845 Northwest Passage expedition have been identified by ...

Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed ...

On May 31, 2024, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Bruce H. Brown, 23, ...

It has only recently been discovered that single-celled organisms (bacteria and archaea) also have histones—proteins that ...

James Fitzjames was one of the captains of British explorer Sir John Franklin's two ships that went missing in 1845.

Scientists have mapped the genome of the Greenland shark, which could offer clues to the animal’s extreme longevity.

Marcellus Williams, 55, is set to die Sept. 24 after being convicted of killing former newspaper reporter Lisha Gayle in her ...

New DNA analysis rules out the possibility that Kaspar Hauser was a “lost prince” kidnapped as a child nearly two centuries ...

AGAWAM — The Woo family, with roots in China, Los Angeles and here in the Pioneer Valley, had long sought a medal honoring a ...

In a region known for hosting some of the earliest evidence of modern humans, DNA analysis was sparse. Until now.

A man who spit on the sidewalk outside of his home in Boston is now charged with an unsolved 35-year-old murder.