The Lichtenstein Cave near the Lower Saxon town of Osterode is the birthplace of an archaeological sensation. Bone finds from ...

A stunning discovery in Roman Britain has revealed fingerprints left on liquid gypsum used to prepare bodies for burial, ...

In a split decision, a majority of justices upheld an appeals court decision overturning the man's conviction for a 2020 ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

New research reveals a link between rising temperatures and changes in polar bear DNA, which may be helping them adapt and ...

About 5 years ago, LaKisha Tawanda David traced her family's ancestry back to Ghana through genetic testing. For her, a Black ...

University of California San Diego researchers have discovered the enzyme responsible for chromothripsis, a process in which ...

University of California San Diego researchers have discovered the enzyme responsible for chromothripsis, a process in which a single chromosome is shattered into pieces and rearranged in a scrambled ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

Scientists discovered that certain cancer cells use a low-level activation of a DNA-dismantling enzyme—normally seen in cell ...

DNA pulled from blood stains on a hatchet, a hacksaw, towels and other items found in a Swampscott dumpster almost certainly ...

Daigle’s research showed that 87% of his 331 students had French ancestry, 81% had Indigenous ancestry and 70% specifically ...