A genetic match to an ancient person doesn't mean you're more related genealogically. Mark Edward Atkinson/Tetra Images via Getty Images We are population geneticists who work with ancient DNA. We ...

An Alabama Death Row inmate must get a new trial, a federal judge wrote several months ago. But that doesn’t mean it will ...

In 2022, we reported the DNA sequences of 33 medieval people buried in a Jewish cemetery in Germany. Not long after we made the data publicly available, people started comparing their own DNA with ...

In a press release, Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O’Neill said he was glad to “finally achieve justice” for the victim ...

Colorado investigators say they have solved the 1987 killing of Rhonda Marie Fisher after newly analyzed DNA linked her death ...

(NewsNation) — DNA matching Travis Decker, the man suspected of killing his three daughters in Washington state, was the only DNA found at the scene of the girls’ deaths other than their own, ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – In the early morning hours of April 13, 2000, a Jacksonville woman was approached by a man while she was loading her car in the parking lot of her apartment complex. The man asked ...

A family with ties to Connecticut is now one step closer to having closure, thanks to a non-profit that works to provide ...

SIDEWALK. MR. HOLMAN, CAN YOU HEAR THE PROCEEDINGS? YES. 65 YEAR OLD JAMES HOLMAN OF DORCHESTER PEEKING OUT FROM BEHIND THE COURTROOM DOOR, PLEADING NOT GUILTY TO THE COLD CASE MURDER OF A YOUNG ...

If your estate plan was created before the DNA testing era—or hasn't been updated to account for these new realities—now is ...