Crime scene investigators with the Boynton Beach Police Department are being recognized during National Forensic Science Week.

Volcanic eruptions on the remote island of Nishinoshima repeatedly wipe the land clean, giving scientists a rare chance to study life’s earliest stages. Researchers traced the genetic origins of an ...

Tiny tweaks in DNA folding can have big effects. A study from Umeå University shows that even the most subtle changes in ...

Rogue DNA rings known as ecDNA may hold the key to cracking glioblastoma’s deadly resilience. Emerging before tumors even ...

Malaria is one of the world's most widespread and deadliest parasitic diseases. But some people may have natural protection ...

The fish that limbed vertebrates evolved from don't have obvious digit equivalents, and the most common types of fish just ...

Scientists have turned an old idea on its head. A new paper reports that stretches of so-called “junk DNA” can help injured ...

Vatican sweating bullets after DNA testing confirms Leonardo painted the Last Supper with the wrong kind of hummus.