The Wake County Sheriff’s Office has identified a woman killed in a 1968 homicide using partner agencies and advancements in ...

Israel says that the remains of a hostage returned from Gaza the previous night belong to Lior Rudaeff, who died fighting ...

Spit It Out” filmmakers Austin and Westin Ray, who direct together under the moniker the Ray Sisters, first got the The post In the Ray Sisters’ ‘Spit It Out,’ a DNA Test Exposes a Family Secret ...

In a ramshackle clinic in Diourbel, rural Senegal, a woman arrives burning with fever, head pounding, joints aching.

Nereid Biomaterials, spun out of the University of Santa Barbara, is developing ocean-degradable materials to replace ...

The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we ...

The breakthrough — made when the brash, Chicago-born Watson was just 24 — turned him into a hallowed figure in the world of ...

The breakthrough did not come until 1953, when Watson visited Wilkins at King’s College in London, and Wilkins showed him a ...

Photos and letters show how James Watson and Francis Crick raced to uncover the double helix structure of DNA.

On a foggy Saturday morning in 1953, a tall, skinny 24-year-old man fiddled with shapes he had cut out of cardboard. They ...

In his later years, Watson's reputation was tarnished by comments on genetics and race that led him to be ostracized by the ...