At first, James Watson terrified me. It was 1991 and my first day as the new science writer at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

Turi King and Alex J Kay have married genetics with history to study a sample of DNA from Adolf Hitler – and, as they reveal, ...

Scientists found that the same stem cells that color hair can either turn gray safely or become cancerous, depending on the ...

A retired journalist writes of the upcoming clemency hearing for Tommy Zeigler, convicted in multiple Winter Garden slayings ...

Scientists have recovered RNA from a mammoth carcass preserved in permafrost for 40,000 years. The ancient molecules reveal details about the creature’s last moments.