Sometimes plants are so similar to each other that the methods developed by 18th-century scientist Carl Linnaeus for ...

FIU scientists have discovered two major problems after analyzing small shark fins from Hong Kong markets—small coastal ...

Jessica Ko saw others sharing their DNA results online and decided to take a test. The results have changed how she sees ...

“Smoky Mountain DNA” could only end with one song: “When It’s Family,” originally co-written by Parton and released as ...

A father-son detective team in Griffith, Indiana, solved a 1981 cold case with the help of technology that wasn't around when ...

Though Chester Alfred Breiney's adoptive parents admitted dumping his body, prosecutors lacked the evidence to prove a crime ...

When molecular biologist Francis Crick tripped on the psychedelic drug LSD in 1953, his mind famously pulled together all of ...

A new study has shattered historians' long-held assumptions about some of the people who died in Mount Vesuvius' eruption in ...

The struggling genetic testing company 23andMe says it will cut 40% of its workforce, or 200 jobs, as it fights for survival.

Officials plan to provide another update Monday after a break last week in a 50-year-old Wisconsin cold case killing, this ...

A new study— published in Current Biology by a team of researchers at Harvard University and the Archaeological Park of ...