John McDonagh was 27 when he was convicted in 2001 by a Central Criminal Court jury of the rape and murder of Siobhan Hynes ...

Oceana scientist Caitlynn Birch explains how environmental DNA, or eDNA, helps us understand and protect the oceans ...

A Roman-era skeleton discovered in southern England has finally given up her secrets after more than a decade of debate. Known as the Beachy Head Woman, she was once thought to have roots in ...

Life’s story may stretch further back than scientists once thought. Some genes found in nearly every organism today were already duplicated before all life shared a common ancestor. By tracking these ...

In a pine forest on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the only active nickel mine in the US is nearing the end of its life. At a ...

These are rare, special families of genes that duplicated themselves before our last common ancestor ever existed. Here is ...

All life on Earth shares a common ancestor that lived roughly four billion years ago. This so-called "last universal common ...

The Natural History Museum, London and Earlham Institute, Norwich today announce a joint venture spin-out company Agnos Biosciences™ (the first of its kind in the Museum’s history). The Agnos ...

In A Nutshell Johns Hopkins researchers developed a blood test that catches 81% of stage IA lung cancers (the earliest, most ...

For more than a century, Neanderthals have been cast as a vanished side branch of the human family tree, a brief encounter in ...

New tech lets scientists extract DNA from old grasshopper collections without damaging the specimens. This unlocks evolutionary data previously inaccessible due to DNA degradation.

The Beachy Head Woman has carried a heavy burden for a long dead individual, pressed into service as a symbol of modern debates about race, migration, and belonging in Britain. Now a new wave of DNA ...