In 1963, Popular Science reported on the Nobel Prize-winning discovery, and Rosalind Franklin⁠—the woman who was left out of the accolades.

In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of DNA’s structure—the now famous double ...

It's a mystery that has left experts scratching their heads for decades, but just how did humans make their way from Europe ...

A newly discovered Denisovan gene, hidden within human DNA, may have helped the first Americans adapt to their new world.

The Reiff family was grieving the death of their beloved dog, Rufus, when they adopted Ziggy — and a DNA test found he was ...

The case against Long Island’s suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer has emerged as a potentially precedent-setting battleground in the use of advanced DNA techniques in criminal cases ...

By Julia Symmes Cobb BOGOTA (Reuters) -Scientists in Colombia have discovered a previously unknown lineage of human beings ...

Discovery of world’s oldest DNA breaks record by one million years Two-million-year-old DNA has been identified for the first time - opening a ‘game-changing’ new chapter in the history of ...

The DNA, which is more than 1 million years old, was recovered from two specimens of steppe mammoth buried in the Siberian permafrost.

Lo’s first discovery was that the DNA of an unborn baby floats freely in its mother’s blood plasma – the yellow liquid that holds blood cells in suspension. That DNA, he knew, was a window ...