Did you know one of the largest collections of marine DNA in the entire world is hiding just outside D.C.? In today’s episode of “Matt About Town,” we’re taking an even deeper dive into the ...

An Ice Age double burial in Italy has yielded a stunning genetic revelation. DNA from a mother and daughter who lived over 12,000 years ago shows that the younger had a rare inherited growth disorder, ...

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The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

“Why should only the tall have access to tall genes? And why should only the smart have access to smart genes?… our goal is to give as many people as possible the opportunity to choose their genes for ...

Search Continues: The Pima County Sheriff’s Department is asking neighbors of Nancy Guthrie to send home security camera footage of vehicles, traffic, people or anything unusual in the month before ...

Mobile elements are DNA sequences that can move around the genome, changing their number of copies or simply changing their location, often affecting the activity of nearby genes. They include DNA ...

Eddy Keming Chen is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California, USA. Mikhail Belkin is a professor of artificial intelligence, data science, ...

This story appears in the September 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. There may be nothing more self-defining than our tastes. Whether in food, wine, romantic partners, or political ...