The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

While police are coy about the exact strategies used to identify killers, the judge in the Desjardins case said, “scientific ...

Rosa Elia Vargas Jimenez Everts of Toppenish was 31 when a former roommate reported her missing to the Toppenish Police ...

In search of younger-looking skin, humans turn to all manner of bizarre treatments, from fish jizz to menstrual blood.

Lonvi Biosciences says the answer is yes: citing a Nature Metabolism paper, its CTO claims “living 150 years is entirely ...

DNA extracted from mosquito blood meals revealed traces of 86 vertebrate species, helping scientists track entire ecosystems.

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

A DNA study of a Bronze Age cave in Calabria sheds light on early populations that lived in southern Italy centuries before Greek settlement.

Fossils can reveal far more than the shapes of ancient creatures. Molecules preserved inside old animal bones provide clues about past diseases, what those animals ate, and the climates they lived in.