For more than 40 years, the Golden State Killer haunted California. A serial rapist and murderer active in the 1970s and '80s, he eluded detectives for decades. By 2018, hope of identifying him was ...

A genealogy nonprofit helped the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office identify remains found on a beach in 2022 as a Santa Rosa banker who went missing in 1999.

Charoula Fotiadou, a doctoral researcher at the University of Tübingen, has led a new scientific study suggesting that low genetic diversity among late ...

Most people who have heard of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (more commonly known as CRISPR) associate it with gene editing—the precise molecular scissors that allow ...

Landmark tumour mapping research could boost targeted breast and ovarian cancer therapies - The researchers said the findings indicate many more patients may benefit from precision therapies ...

For decades, birdwatchers in Japan thought they were looking at the same little green songbird flitting through mountain forests on two far‑flung island chains. It took high‑tech DNA tests and careful ...

"This case was unusual – it's not often we see someone end up as a John Doe twice." ...

Though it seems unremarkable, Yellowstone's Mushroom Pool might be the most important thermal feature in history. A discovery from its waters led to ...

Marla Waldman Conn was on a family vacation, relaxing by a pool in Missouri’s Lake of the Ozarks, when she got a call from a New York detective. She walked to a private corner, picked up the phone, ...

A Sunday morning hike in eastern Putnam County turned grim when a group of hikers discovered a partially decomposed body near Monterey, according to the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies and ...