Where did Sapiens come from?When thinking about human evolution, for a long time I imagined something like a single ...

A lock of hair, 15 years of sleuthing and a 200-year-old question. In History by a Hair, Smithsonian Institution scholar Richard Kurin follows the DNA trail back to Thomas Jefferson.

Colossal Biosciences says AI has helped identify potential gene-editing targets for its dodo de-extinction project. The ...

Researchers say the findings further support long-standing accounts from Hemings’ descendants about Jefferson’s children. Researchers say DNA recovered from Thomas ...

“People around the world are still fighting against this pathogen, there is currently an outbreak of sheeppox in Greece, ...

One of the unresolved mysteries about the history of the Americas is when the first people arrived. Despite extensive debate ...

The case of two detached human feet that were found on beaches near Nanaimo grabbed headlines around the world in the late ...

Franklin's lab notes show she grasped the significance of her DNA images, according to a new essay.

A strand stuck in glue that Thomas Jefferson used to make a Bible is further confirmation for historians and descendants of the third president and the enslaved woman.

Thomas Jefferson’s DNA sheds new light on his relationship with Sally Hemings and supports the longstanding conclusion that he fathered her children.

The fact that one of the worst plagues in human history occurred in 16th-century Mexico is barely mentioned in world history ...