Desperate to replace money that she had allegedly stolen from three friends by lying to them and saying she had bought plane tickets for their daughters to travel with her to Florida, a 47-year-old ...

The story of the discovery of the structure of the Double Helix is well-known, but have often erased Rosalind Franklin (Photo ...

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints ...

A 13-year study of DNA samples collected from the 4,000-year-old Shimao site, a complex of gigantic prehistoric ruins on the northern edges of the Loess Plateau in Shaanxi province, has unlocked clues ...

A genomic study, whose results are published in Nature, has begun to unravel the deep mysteries that for millennia have ...

Archaeologists have proven the existence of a lost ring of pits near Stonehenge, and say it could be Britain's largest ...

Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia.

Chemists can now precisely control the stereochemical sequence of synthetic polymers using similar techniques to those used ...

Cancer cells with a cell nucleus that is easily deformed are more sensitive to drugs that damage DNA. These are the findings ...

Sacrificial victims in mass burials were mostly male, while burial attendants for nobles or elites were overwhelmingly female, study finds Female sacrifice in China dates back thousands of years ...

This week, researchers reported that weight and health markers may rebound when patients stop using some of the new hormonal ...