Cats were domesticated in North Africa, but spread to Europe only about 2,000 years ago. Earlier reports of “house” cats were ...

Hunter-gatherer genes likely favoured during the last Ice Age could be helping modern-day Italians live longer life ...

New DNA sequencing techniques have revealed that the Roman-era skeleton known as the "Beachy Head woman" likely originated in ...

On a stormy Monday in March, 1827, the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven passed away after a protracted illness.

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

Mount Sinai scientists developed V2P, a powerful new AI tool that predicts how specific DNA mutations translate into disease, ...

A decade after bones were found off I-90 in Minnesota, DNA sleuths have identified the victim as WWII veteran Luis Gilberto ...

Physical analysis of the remains suggested that the owner of the bones was approximately 18 to 25 years old at the time of ...

A retired Army veteran and state trooper from Florida pleaded not guilty Thursday in the 1997 killing of a young mother that ...

Our robot test attempts to answer the impossible question: how far would a peak Tiger have hit it with a modern driver ...

Timothy Hollan, 73, was arrested for a 1999 murder on Cherokee Nation land after a recent DNA match identified the victim.

A global research team co-led by VCU expert Kenneth Kendler has produced the most comprehensive genetic map so far, identifying five families of disorders that show a high degree of overlap. An intern ...