The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

A new study shows, for the first time, how the human genome folds and moves in 3D over time to control when genes turn on and ...

One of the most detailed 3D maps of how the human chromosomes are organized and folded within a cell's nucleus is published ...

Researchers have revealed that so-called “junk DNA” contains powerful switches that help control brain cells linked to ...

Scientists discover Bronze Age plague DNA in 4,000-year-old sheep remains, shedding light on how ancient diseases spread ...

Despite coming back in style, the dangers of tanning beds never went away, particularly one side effect that’s more than skin deep and literally changing DNA.

On 22 February 1498, a well-weathered mid-40s Christopher Columbus ordained in writing that his estate in the Italian port ...

An ancient woman thought to have hailed from sub-Saharan Africa and therefore to have been the first known Black Briton actually had fairer skin and was from southern England, researchers using new ...

The study, which was published in the journal Science Advances, links indoor tanning to a three-times greater risk of ...

Your next favorite true crime podcast might have some new forensics jargon to make sense of. Researchers in Australia have developed a new way to identify humans – similar to how we do with DNA and ...