Forensic DNA testing sees improvements in recent years, crime lab director says ...

All of what James Duckett hopes will spare him from being executed next week exists inside a test tube and at the ends of two ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Texas death-row inmate Rodney Reed, leaving intact lower-court ...

Scientists traced Leonardo da Vinci’s Y chromosome through living relatives, a breakthrough that may confirm his true burial ...

Two deep-sea amphipod species have been found to live in both hemispheres and share features, according to a new study that ...

The death-row inmate in Texas has maintained his innocence in the 1996 rape and murder of a police officer’s fiancée.

Sheriff’s investigators say updated DNA testing linked an already-imprisoned killer to a cold-case homicide nearly 20 years ...

Over 34 years in prison, Shawn Tanner maintained he was not guilty of murder. A legal battle over whether the dead can clear ...

A groundbreaking interdisciplinary study has unveiled the dramatic 2,000-year history of a population living at the southern edge of the ancient Andean farming frontier. By analyzing ancient DNA from ...

A shooting outside a Providence nightclub opens a window on one of the most insidious — and least understood — problems with ...