A historian believes he has determined Jack the Ripper's identity through a DNA match of a shawl found at the scene of one of ...

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and ...

New research suggests that the first Indo-European speakers lived in southern Russia 6,500 years ago, challenging ...

Learn about the El Mirón cave in northern Spain, home to the unusually red bones of a buried woman and ancient carnivores ...

Ancient DNA analysis reveals that sheep were domesticated over 11,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent. By 8,000 years ago, ...

The rise of pastoralist peoples in the Eurasian steppes and their westward spread some 5,000 years ago may have been fuelled ...

Joris Peters, co-corresponding author, Professor of Paleoanatomy, Domestication Research and the History of Veterinary Medicine at LMU Munich and Director of the State Collection for Paleoanatomy ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

The building blocks of DNA have been found in samples returned to Earth from an asteroid, suggesting life rained down from ...

As is the case with many songs in Kendrick Lamar's catalog, the meaning behind "DNA" has far more layers than one might think.