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

After years of suffering from Marfan syndrome - a genetic condition that affects connective tissue and can cause heart, eye, ...

Summer McKesson’s quest for answers to her medical condition would unearth a family secret – and a doctor’s decades-old ...

Ancient DNA from Napoleon’s soldiers reveals enteric and relapsing fevers - not typhus - as key killers during the army’s ...

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

Radiocarbon dating and a coin minted in 251 AD found within the well confirmed the remains dated to the second half of the third century AD, perfectly coinciding with the Crisis of the Third Century ...

DNA testing solves the 1987 murder of Marilyn Decker, identifying the deceased Donald Lawless as the perpetrator.

In 1812, hundreds of thousands of men in Napoleon's army perished during their retreat from Russia. Researchers now believe a ...

New genetic research is overturning decades of accepted beliefs about where Guam’s ancient CHamoru people came from, ...

As a humid night cloaked a mountain forest of northern Thailand, a “fanged” creature moved through a pool of water with its “robust” limbs. Its patterned eyes scanned the surrounding plants, but it ...

According to a recent study published in Ecology and Evolution, scientists found that the spider that appeared to be one ...