More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

The oldest known Egyptian DNA sample, from a man who lived between 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, offers new insights into the ...

But while experts now know a fair amount about ancient Egyptian life, they still understand very little about the ...

Scientists with the Synthetic Human Genome Project are trying to create artificial human DNA from scratch, leading to numerous ethical concerns. While the ...

The state of Alabama has a complicated relationship with science, and its criminal courts are no exception. Often, state ...

Interestingly, as Mnookin notes, DNA evidence received pushback “much more quickly than fingerprints ever did.” It even seems the public has grasped the dangers of its being abused and misused.

Fu and her colleagues attempted to retrieve ancient DNA from six samples taken from Dragon Man’s surviving tooth and the cranium’s petrous bone, a dense piece at the base of the skull that’s ...

Fifteen years after the discovery of a new type of human, the Denisovan, scientists discovered its DNA in a fossilized skull. The key? Tooth plaque.

Joseph Leo Boudreau was identified as the killer in the 1980 cold case murder of Katharina Reitz Brow through DNA evidence. Boudreau died in 2004 at the age of 61.

The figures are quite telling. Fake news accounts for up to 51% of posts about vaccines and 60% of content related to pandemics, according to a 2022 WHO study.