A man accused of a brutal rape for which another man spent 17 years in jail has said his promiscuous lifestyle could explain ...

A rape suspect suggested his promiscuous lifestyle could explain his DNA being found on the victim of a brutal attack for which another man was wrongly convicted. Paul Quinn, 51, was confronted with ...

A rock measuring 900 meters is on a journey through our solar system, providing what is arguably one of the strongest pieces ...

A new genetic study published in the journal Cell is filling in some important details about the earliest inhabitants of Palau, an island nation in the western Pacific Ocean consisting of ...

Scientists have uncovered an enormous hidden archive of plant DNA that has endured for more than 400 million years. By comparing hundreds of plant genomes, researchers identified more than 2.3 million ...

A rape suspect claimed to have had “sex with the majority of Manchester” to explain why his DNA was on the victim, a court heard.

The Iñupiat people of Alaska have long said that bowhead whales live two human lifetimes. That oral knowledge turned out to be conservative.

Researchers uncovered millions of ancient plant DNA switches—some older than flowering plants themselves—revealing a hidden evolutionary blueprint stretching back 400 million years. Most people have ...

Noel Logan had denied three counts of having the devices with intent to endanger life or cause serious injury.

Ancient DNA shows forests grew on the lost land of Doggerland 16,000 years ago, suggesting it supported wildlife.

Ancient DNA preserved in seabed sediments suggests Doggerland hosted temperate forests far earlier than expected.