Each of us has enough DNA to reach from here to the sun and back, more than 300 times. How is all of that DNA packaged so tightly into chromosomes and squeezed into a tiny nucleus? Histones are a ...

DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the nucleic acid polymer that forms the genetic code for a cell or virus. Most DNA molecules consist of two polymers (double-stranded) of four nucleotides that each ...

The number of home DNA test kits offering nutrition and diet advice matched to your genes is growing. They’re based on the idea that each of us responds to foods differently, in part due to our ...

New DNA evidence has revealed the identity of Jack the Ripper as Aaron Kosminski, a Polish barber, more than 130 years after the brutal murders that terrorized Victorian London. Historian and author ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future? Eske Willerslev was on a tour of Montreal’s Redpath Museum, a Victorian-era ...

Nearly six years after DNA analysts claimed to identify the notorious London serial killer known as “Jack the Ripper,” a victim’s family is demanding a police investigation into the claims.

The indiscriminate use of ‘Nazi’ to describe anything to do with German institutions and policies during Hitler’s dictatorship creates a false historical understanding, says Richard Overy. Richard ...

Over a century after he murdered and mutilated London women in 1888, the long-mythologized killer’s identity has allegedly been confirmed by DNA found on a shawl, historian Russell Edwards said.

Richard Overy’s chilling new book Rain of Ruin charts the lead-up to Japan’s surrender in the second World War and is published to mark the 80th anniversary of the terrible events of that time.

Articles by Richard Overy An aerial view shows the leveling of whole city blocks in Tokyo after U.S. incendiary bombing raids in 1945.

British historian Russell Edwards claims to have identified Jack the Ripper as Aaron Kosminski using DNA evidence from a crime scene. Kosminski, a mentally ill Polish immigrant, allegedly committed ...