The Nancy Guthrie case has DNA evidence at five separate labs. A forensic science expert just explained what that means.

Murder investigators in Arizona are encountering a stubborn obstacle to solving a decades-old cold case involving an ...

It's not just the dazzling colours and slick moves of Australia's dancing spiders that make them special. There are more than 100 different species of the peacock spider, whereas most animals have ...

Every cell in the human body squeezes over six feet of DNA into a miniscule speck invisible to the naked eye—like compressing ...

Ancient DNA helps explain why northern Europeans have a higher risk of multiple sclerosis than other ancestries: It's a genetic legacy of horseback-riding cattle herders who swept into the region ...

Researchers from the University of Birmingham have uncovered answers that provide the detail to explain two specific DNA repair processes that have long been in question. The publication of two papers ...

Maybe he was confused. Or scared. But the confession had to be true. Surely Christopher Barbour just got the name wrong and ...

Scientists have found a link between super-agers' longevity and DNA analyzed from Ice Age hunter-gatherer populations in Europe.

Every human face is unique, allowing us to distinguish between individuals. We know little about how facial features are encoded in our DNA, but we may be able to learn more about how our faces ...

Scientists at Stanford University have discovered that DRT3, a unique defense system found in bacteria, creates DNA to ...