In Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass," Alice is stuck in a never-ending race with the Red Queen yet never gains a ...

Our genome isn’t as peaceful as it looks—some DNA elements are constantly trying to disrupt it. Scientists studying fruit ...

A Roman-era skeleton discovered in southern England has finally given up her secrets after more than a decade of debate.

Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester counties celebrated tri-county biological science center, which will streamline DNA and ...

Before the DNA revolution of the early 2000s, genealogy was a study dependent on records. Tracing a line of heritage could hit a dead end if documentation had gone missing or been destroyed. But as ...

A new study shows that cancer damages its own DNA by pushing key genes to work too hard. Researchers found that the most ...

New research suggests the mysterious Roman-era “Beachy Head Woman” was likely from Britain, not the Mediterranean or ...

Forensics experts gather DNA to understand who was present at a crime scene. But what if the crime occurred in the middle of ...

In a way, sequencing DNA is very simple: There's a molecule, you look at it, and you write down what you find. You'd think it would be easy—and, for any one letter in the sequence, it is. The problem ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Science correspondent Richard Stone about recent developments in the search for Leonardo da Vinci's DNA.