The first scientific evidence of the Black Death in Edinburgh has been discovered on the remains of a teenage boy who died in ...

In June, someone's skeletal remains were found in a ravine. Chairwoman Teri Gobin says she had a gut feeling it was a tribal ...

A team from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology has discovered a new class of bacterial mobile genetic elements that use giant viruses—known as jumbo phages—to move between cells. The ...

Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress ...

DNA in seawater revealed that 93% of fish species live beyond known ranges, exposing major gaps in global marine biodiversity records.

A team of scientists has developed a highly accurate blood test for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. The test reads tiny DNA patterns that reveal the biological signature of the illness. For millions who’ve ...

Remains discovered earlier this year in a remote area of northwestern Washington are those of Mary Johnson, an Indigenous ...

Extension will give global researchers more time for UAE’s top research grant proposals ...

Dear Eric: I wanted to respond to the letter from the father who found out his children did not share his DNA (“Sad Dad”). I am a daughter who discovered after my parents were dead that my father was ...

Scientists in Japan discovered Physalia mikazuki, a new venomous jellyfish species carried north by warm currents.