For nearly 70 years, a swatch taken by a US officer from Hitler's Berlin bunker in 1945 remained hidden. Its purchase by a ...

Adolf Hitler's DNA is shedding light on mental and physical factors that may have influenced his genocidal behaviour ...

Why was Adolf Hitler the way he was? As simple as the question sounds, even over 80 years after the Nazi dictator's death, an answer remains elusive — and every new attempt to explain it stirs ...

Francis Crick's biography is full of surprises as author Matthew Cobb reveals the life and work of the co-discoverer of DNA's ...

Scientists have extracted the oldest RNA molecules out of a woolly mammoth, gaining a snapshot into the processes at work in ...

Would you choose to have a part of your body live on after you died? How might your choice affect your relatives—or even your ...

French investigators have found more than 150 pieces of DNA and fingerprints at the Louvre as the director calls for a police station to be set up inside the Paris museum. The thieves who snatched ...

A team of researchers that includes Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) computer scientist Kyumin Lee has developed a DNA ...

At a time when large-scale human genome analysis was not yet common, the Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization (ToMMo) ...

They’re usually spun to make spooky Halloween decorations, but new research from the University of Waikato and the Bioeconomy Science Institute has found that toy cobwebs can also weave surprising ...

Would you choose to have a part of your body live on after you died? How might your choice affect your relatives - or even your entire community?