Researchers uncover two previously undetected bacteria in teeth from Napoleon’s soldiers, revealing a possible combination of illness that ravaged his army in 1812.

In 1812, French military general Napoleon Bonaparte controlled most of Europe. Even with all this power, though, when he went ...

Ancient DNA from Napoleon’s soldiers reveals enteric and relapsing fevers - not typhus - as key killers during the army’s ...

DNA is often called the blueprint of life, but what does that really mean? Elizabeth Worthey, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Genetics in the Heersink School of Medicine, explains everything ...

Scientists dug into paleofeces for a new study, learning some very intimate details about how long-ago people lived.

Scientists analyzed data from more than one million users of 23andMe and found associations between certain genes and stuttering ...

This came up in a front page discussion recently, and I promised I'd do a bit of a brain dump. The motivation: people often talk about whether we're regulating the risks posed by exposure to radiation ...

Newsweek asked ChatGPT to create images of mixed-breed dogs based on DNA results owners posted online, testing if it matched the canines.

Veteran detectives who have worked on similar cases said French investigators have a lot of evidence to work with in the ...