Newly discovered DNA could shed light on one of Italy's most famous cold cases, finally revealing the "Monster of Florence" serial killer who murdered young couples in the 1970s and 80s. More than ...

When Steve Edsel was a boy, his adoptive parents kept a scrapbook of newspaper clippings in their bedroom closet. He would ask for it sometimes, poring over the headlines about his birth. Headlines ...

Over a decade, scientists compared the genomes of 240 mammals to see how humans are the same — and different. By Carl Zimmer It has been 20 years since scientists put together the first rough draft of ...

Rosalind Franklin’s role in the discovery of the structure of DNA may have been different than previously believed. Franklin wasn’t the victim of data theft at the hands of James Watson and Francis ...

Mushrooms are more closely related to animals than plants, said Matt Kasson, an associate professor of mycology at West Virginia University. The first hypotheses about the relationship between fungi ...

DNA profiling, as it has been known since 1994, has been used in the criminal justice system since the late 1980s, and was originally termed “DNA fingerprinting”. The DNA in every human is very ...

Doppelgängers share strikingly similar physical characteristics—they look so alike that, at times, these two unrelated people could easily pass for twins (or, at least, siblings). Now, new research ...

Genomes hold immense quantities of noncoding DNA. Some of it is essential for life, some seems useless, and some has its own agenda. Imagine the human genome as a string stretching out for the length ...

A controversial study is being misrepresented on social media as evidence that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines modify your DNA. Sign up here. The study was heavily criticised by some experts, one of whom ...

If you’re a parent of twins, one of the first questions you’ll probably get asked is if your children are identical or fraternal twins. If your twins are identical, the excitement is often palpable ...

Contrary to claims on social media, COVID-19 vaccines using messenger RNA (mRNA) technology do not transform recipients from humans into “hybrids,” nor do they alter human DNA through nanotechnology.