The discovery of plague DNA in a 4,000-year-old sheep bone is rewriting the story of one of humanity’s most feared pathogens, ...

In a corner of a national park where the ground steams and the air smells faintly of sulfur, scientists have stumbled on a ...

Maxwell: The jury didn’t believe Tommy Zeigler should be executed. A judge ordered him to die anyway. 50 years later, new DNA ...

Texas sexual-assault survivors now have a quieter route to forensic DNA testing that does not require calling the police. A ...

Kazuho Takahashi, who became CEO of Caterham in November – and is also the founder and president of the Japanese retail group ...

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

Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä have discovered a simple way to program synthetic molecules so they can form ...

Taking the kids to Disneyland will require a gargantuan effort as early as next year, with the US proposing extensive new requirements for ESTA (electronic system for travel authorisation) ...

Known as Breast Circulating Methylation Assay (BCMA), the new blood test looks for tumour DNA released into the bloodstream ...

Let’s start with some good news: cancer death rates in the United States are falling. Since 1991, the age-adjusted cancer mortality rate has declined by about 34 per cent (reference). This can be ...

New research is challenging one of medicine’s oldest assumptions: that cancer must be attacked to be cured. By treating ...

A groundbreaking study introduces new noninvasive screening tools that have the potential to greatly enhance patient comfort ...