It’s International Fact-Checking Day, an event to highlight the work of fact-checkers around the world. In a message marking ...

Paul Hutchinson, who brutally murdered schoolgirl Colette Aram in 1983 and taunted police for years, was finally caught in ...

It was in October 1983 that the former electrician snatched the 16-year-old off the street as she walked the short distance ...

OpenSNP, an open-source genetic database, is shutting down on April 30, deleting all DNA data to protect users from ...

An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the ...

UConn School of Medicine Neuroscientist Dr. Eric Levine’s innovative autism research is reprogramming the donated skin or blood cells of patients like Fiona to develop them in the lab into brain cells ...

Good Morning America anchor Whit Johnson dropped a bombshell on air over the weekend while the panel discussed the DNA testing service 23andMe and the company’s recent filing for bankruptcy.

On March 28, 2005, an 8.6-magnitude earthquake jolted the western coast of Sumatra, killing about 1,000 people and destroying ...

As 23andMe prepares to be sold, Science News spoke with two experts about what’s at stake and whether consumers should delete their genetic data.

DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the nucleic acid polymer that forms the genetic code for a cell or virus. Most DNA molecules consist of two polymers (double-stranded) of four nucleotides that each ...

Jose Castillo and Simone Jacot are undergraduate researchers who participated in the Microbiome Research summer program.

A Japanese man who spent more than 40 years on death row until he was acquitted last year has been awarded $1.4 million in ...