Just in case this mythological robe wasn’t shrouded in enough mystery. Analysis has revealed DNA belonging to plants, animals ...

Discover new clues about how our ancient relatives disappeared from time.

Scientists in Bahrain are building the country’s first DNA reference library for sharks and rays using fish market samples, ...

Hidden within fish DNA are powerful genetic twists that may explain one of nature’s biggest mysteries: how new species form so quickly. In Lake Malawi, hundreds of cichlid fish species evolved at ...

A cancer drug target already being investigated in clinical trials turns out to be doing something even more consequential ...

How did DNA from the Indian subcontinent land up on a shroud in Italy connected to the worship of Jesus Christ? Researchers ...

An analysis of samples taken from the Shroud of Turin, the cloth thought by some to have been wrapped around Jesus, reveals a ...

We finally know the genetic roots of a man buried at a Stone Age monument in Spain, but his religious beliefs are still a ...

Remember when Japan sent a spacecraft to an asteroid 180 million miles away to scoop some dirt off the surface? Six years on from its arrival to Earth, that sample has yielded some insights about what ...

Years later, none of it — not 84-year-old Eleonora Knoernschild’s bloody body on the shag carpet, not the torn bedspread twisted around her neck, not the junk heaped on her corpse so abundantly that ...

DNA evidence is supposed to be the gold standard of criminal investigation. But what happens when that same technology sends ...