For nearly five decades, the mysterious disappearance of Peter Adams, who was just 20 at the time, went unsolved.

Officials say they've identified a human skull discovered nearly four decades ago in Bristol as belonging to Warren Kuchinsky ...

A common type of error-correcting mechanism in biology is called kinetic proofreading. For example, if errors turn up when cells are making new DNA, enzymes can cut out incorrect nucleotides. They can ...

The Evo2 genomic language model can generate short genome sequences, but scientists say further advances are needed to write ...

The Wiregrass Peanut Project placed students inside an active genetics research effort during the Wiregrass Innovation Center's first week of operation.

Because cremation dominates the Urnfield period, the Late Bronze Age has long been a “blind spot” for biomolecular research. The new study published in Nature tackled that gap by focusing on ...

When ancient DNA studies began to gain attention, little more than a decade ago, the view took hold among geneticists that ...

Many law enforcement agencies are relying on crowdfunding to pay for genetic genealogy, which has helped solve hundreds of cases in recent years.

Explore how project management information systems guide each project phase, the tools that support them, and real-world use across industries. Project management information systems extend far beyond ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. It’s been more than 500 years since Leonardo da Vinci died. Yet, in those intervening ...

Nearly half a century after his body was discovered along the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, a young man once known only as Greenbelt John Doe has been identified as Edward "Eddie" Octavis Devone, a 24 ...

Delaware is one of the few states without a formal law mandating the preservation of evidence like blood, semen or hair. Senate Bill 214 would require evidence to be kept as long as a crime is ...