Scientists have new proof that Thomas Jefferson had children with his enslaved chambermaid Sally Hemings—and that their bloodline endures across the country.

Bronx prosecutors say Jancys Santiago is the first person to be convicted by a New York jury in a sexual assault cold case using investigative genetic genealogy.

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As many as 100 million elm trees died from Dutch elm disease in the span of 50 years. Now, decades of careful breeding may help them return. In a Vermont field, a team tends to young elm trees.

A research team from INRAE and the University Clermont Auvergne has shown that trees are capable of correcting a curvature they detect in their stems through a specific biological process. In the ...

CNN was forced to apologize to Dolly Parton’s family for mistakenly using a photo of a Las Vegas impersonator of the country music legend while reporting on her death. The cable news network aired an ...

Google's crawler now strictly enforces standard JSON formatting when reading your site's structured data, schema markup, instead of auto-correcting double-escaped HTML text. "To bring our parser up to ...

The human family tree may be due for a major rewrite. Researchers argue that Australopithecus and Paranthropus should be folded into the genus Homo because new fossils have blurred many of the traits ...

A Massachusetts teenager used a laptop and a knife to beat his mother and brother to death, hours after he used ChatGPT to search “for theoretical ideas or fantasy stories regarding the killing of his ...

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OXFORD — Tom Wargo heard a noise outside his house Wednesday morning and looked out his window to see trees falling toward his house. He ran to help his wife and son upstairs who were jolted awake as ...