Scientists analyzing 2,000-year-old DNA have revealed that a Celtic society in the southern U.K. during the Iron Age was ...

The surprising paradigm shift could lead to much more protective sunscreens and effective skin treatments.

It’s been decades since thousands of human bones and bone fragments were unearthed on a suspected Indiana serial killer’s property ...

One of the oldest known cases of the 'Black Death' plague has been uncovered in the ancient DNA of a 3,290-year ... the new find marks the first discovery of the disease outside Eurasia.

To date, scientists have extracted eight unique DNA profiles — all male — from more than 70 of the 100 bones that were sent to the Indiana State Police Laboratory by Dr. Krista Latham, the ...

Scientists have discovered that the protein machines that shape our DNA can switch direction. Until now, researchers believed that these so-called SMC motors that make loops into DNA could move in one ...

Those samples can then be screened against DNA profiles scientists are extracting from the remains, which were found starting in 1996 on Herbert Baumeister’s sprawling suburban Indianapolis ...

Decades after investigators unearthed thousands of human bones and bone fragments on a suspected Indiana serial killer's ...