Our genome isn’t as peaceful as it looks—some DNA elements are constantly trying to disrupt it. Scientists studying fruit ...

Genetic records from more than 20,000 children in the United States, collected to understand how young brains grow and how ...

A Roman-era skeleton discovered in southern England has finally given up her secrets after more than a decade of debate.

Before the DNA revolution of the early 2000s, genealogy was a study dependent on records. Tracing a line of heritage could hit a dead end if documentation had gone missing or been destroyed. But as ...

Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, Nanjing University of China, ...

New research suggests the mysterious Roman-era “Beachy Head Woman” was likely from Britain, not the Mediterranean or ...

A new study shows that cancer damages its own DNA by pushing key genes to work too hard. Researchers found that the most ...

Forensics experts gather DNA to understand who was present at a crime scene. But what if the crime occurred in the middle of ...

Most pet dogs carry small fragments of wolf DNA, left behind after their long association with people. That genetic trace is ...

The truth is that, while DNA testing is often touted as being 99.9% accurate, that tiny remaining fraction is where thousands ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Science correspondent Richard Stone about recent developments in the search for Leonardo da ...