Most of us wandered through high school biology class, mostly worried about passing the next exam or trying to avoid dissecting a frog. We stared at diagrams of squiggly lines and letters without ...

Adriana Turk, from Australia, spent her entire life believing her extended family had perished in the Holocaust. However, a ...

James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and ethics, has died. He was 97.The ...

In the central Sahara, where sand now buries ancient lakes, scientists have pulled genetic material from 7,000-year-old ...