That's the lure of at-home ("direct-to-consumer") DNA and health testing. Late at night, from your phone, you can order just ...

Ohio State University has tested 6,000 ticks from all over the state for bacteria, viruses and disease-causing parasites over ...

The mystery of Peru's "conehead" mummies has baffled scientists for decades, and new DNA tests on the mummies' teeth have ...

Two women were found murdered in the 1980s. More than 35 years went by with no definitive answers as to who was responsible.

A remarkably preserved Siberian woolly mammoth, dating back 52,000 years, has yielded an astonishing discovery: fossilized chromosomes. This unprecedented find, made possible by natural freeze-drying, ...

Netflix's true crime drama The Witness is a three-part series examining the 1992 Wimbledon Common killing of Rachel Nickell.

Computational chemists at the University of Amsterdam's Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences have developed a ...

In this interview, Dr Dagmara Lewandowska talks about innovations in magnetic bead-based extraction and genomics automation.

Researchers drilled into 2,000-year-old Peruvian mummy teeth hoping to finally settle one of archaeology's most debated ...

A new DNA analysis of Peru’s mysterious conehead mummies failed to fully explain the origins of the Paracas skulls.

The lab that conducted DNA tests on crime scene evidence and potential suspects in the Candace Derksen case never disclosed an inaccuracy in one of their reports, court heard Thursday. On day 9 of the ...

Researchers are using paleoproteomics to recover ancient proteins from fossils millions of years old. Studies of dental ...