Using DNA analysis, investigators say a human skull found in Cougar, Washington in 2021 is of a man missing from the Portland area since 1995, the Cowlitz County Sheriff’s Office said on Thursday.

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) — A New York judge on Wednesday allowed DNA evidence obtained through advanced techniques into the forthcoming murder trial of the man accused of being Long Island’s Gilgo Beach ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists are trying to sequence the DNA of Leonardo da Vinci to identify if the remains at his interment site really are his. The project began ...

The Age of AI will rely on massive volumes of data that can be easily stored and retrieved—and bioscience may have an ingenious solution. A scientist examines a DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) profile on ...

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new technology for measuring how radiation damages DNA molecules. This novel technique, which passes DNA ...

While the search for a Washington father accused of killing his three young daughters in June continues, DNA testing has confirmed he is the only suspect in the murders, police said. DNA matching ...

DNA testing has confirmed that the fugitive father accused of killing his three daughters at a campground in Washington state in June is the sole suspect wanted in connection with the case, ...

We’re celebrating 180 years of Scientific American. Explore our legacy of discovery and look ahead to the future. In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of ...

Swansea University has helped uncover a surprising new role for platelets—one that could significantly advance early cancer detection. The study, led by the University of Oxford and published in ...

Two unrelated young people buried in cemeteries in England in the Early Middle Ages probably had grandparents from West Africa. How and when their relatives arrived in Britain is unknown, but the ...

White sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) almost went bottom-up during the last ice age, when sea levels were much lower than they are today and sharks had to get by with less space. The most recent cold ...