An international team of molecular biologists, computer scientists and physicists has found a way to encode useable digital ...

Imagine scanning lion dung or a mouse dropping and instantly knowing exactly what and how much the animal has eaten. Thanks ...

The "Well-man" likely had blue eyes, blond or light-brown hair, and hailed from southern Norway.

Investigators have determined that a skull found in the wall of an Illinois home in 1978 was that of an Indiana teenager who died more than 150 years ago.

Researchers have managed to encode enormous amounts of information, including images, into DNA at a rate hundreds of times ...

Authorities say DNA found on the clothing of a suburban Chicago woman who was kidnapped and killed 45 years ago matches that ...

Forty-five years after 17-year-old Kathy Halle was killed in the Illinois village of North Aurora, police have finally ...

Following an arrest in a murder case Wednesday, court documents detail how St. Petersburg investigators were able to track ...

A new study conducted in roundworms finds that a common plastic ingredient causes breaks in DNA strands, resulting in egg cells with the wrong number of chromosomes.

Bricks’ of DNA, some of which have chemical tags, could one day be an alternative to storing information electronically.

In a game called “Missing Words,” comedians on “Have I Got News For You” fill in the words for missing news headlines. Watch ...

An expert in ancient DNA (aDNA) at the University of Copenhagen, his day job involved studying the lives of prehistoric ...