Louis XIV's real cause of death has been revealed after a team of researchers studied DNA from his mummified heart. The King ...

New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

In the past twenty years, major technological advances in extracting and analyzing DNA have transformed the ability to ...

A research team led by Professor Luo Shujin from the School of Life Sciences has uncovered a surprising chapter in the ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

The Jomon people—who eventually settled in what is now Japan—share little, if any, genetic connection to the Denisovan population that’s spread throughout Eurasia.

When you have submitted your sample, you will receive your results in four weeks. This will include an ethnicity estimate, as ...

Thousands of years ago, a group of hunter-gatherers roamed the steppes of southern Russia, fishing in its rivers and hunting across its vast grasslands. They lived in a world without settlements, ...

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

A large Mayo Clinic study shows that current guidelines fail to detect nearly 90% of people with familial ...

Charles “Buffalo” Jones invented the cow-buffalo hybrid in 1888. His intention? To create the hardiest free-range livestock ...

Two historians will release their theory on the potential suspect in the Jack the Ripper case on a new five-part podcast ...