Scientists have long believed they understood how life’s genetic code evolved, but new research upends that assumption. By ...

Sgt. Meyers has been looking for potential leads to figure out where the unknown man is from. The death certificate says he ...

"I would say that any modern biologist would, or should, say that birds are reptiles," Martin Stervander, an evolutionary ...

They analyzed ancient DNA from 435 individuals from archaeological ... ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, according to a new study. It is the first time researchers use ...

When scientists observed that these mirror molecules behave just like their natural equivalents they considered that it would be possible to make a whole living cell from them. Mi ...

Over half of our genomes consists of thousands of remnants of ancient viral DNA, known as transposable elements, which are widespread across the tree of life. Once dismissed as the "dark side" of ...

My mum Judy has brown eyes. Her parents both had blue. For more than 60 years that little detail has bothered her.

There was a book called Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats by Kristen Iversen that I optioned and am still trying to turn into a TV show. It’s about the process of ...

Ancestry predicted that we were "half 2nd cousin 1x removed," but the shared DNA quantity doesn't necessarily place the relationship on a family tree ... patterns." Life wasn't easy for our ...

A plea deal leading to a lesser charge and prison sentence in a Lone Tree man’s 1985 shooting death — despite DNA evidence linking ... to risk the rest of his life in prison at the hands ...

A group of Rutgers scientists, led by ecologist Julie Lockwood, met an international challenge and has been recognized for stellar efforts. As part of the Map of Life Rapid Assessments team led by ...