Artist, inventor and anatomist Leonardo da Vinci was the definition of a Renaissance man — and scientists are aiming to ...

Researchers from the University of Maryland, College Park, may have captured ancient DNA from the Italian High Renaissance ...

Ancient DNA is turning human evolution into a crime scene reconstruction, and one of the prime suspects is a herpesvirus that ...

Dominique Pelicot was caught filming up the skirts of female customers in a Paris supermarket in 2010. He was released with a €100 fine, but a DNA sample taken while he was in custody matched a sample ...

Henry Louis Gates Jr. previews the complex, multi-generational stories shaping the newest season of PBS' Finding Your Roots.

In London, the Natural History Museum released its 2025 list of newly described species, formally adding 262 plants and ...

A virus that infects nearly all children early in life has, in rare cases, been present within human DNA for thousands of ...

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado isn't the first Nobel Prize winner to give their medal away.

Grammy-nominated singer Davido has denied paternity of a teenage girl, Anu, who claims he is her father. In a statement on ...

Little is known about why the woolly rhinoceros went extinct around 14,000 years ago. Scientists have found clues in an unusual source: the frozen remains of an ice age wolf.

They also took third in the Rider Championship with Bezzecchi on 353 points – the best result ever for a rider in Aprilia ...