For nearly five decades, the mysterious disappearance of Peter Adams, who was just 20 at the time, went unsolved.

Ever since an at-home DNA test revealed a Nigerian ancestry, life-long Evanston resident Tina Penick has reflected on what might have been. “What if we lived in Nigeria? What would that look like?” ...

The body of a pregnant woman stabbed to death and discovered in the parking lot of a local high school in 1980 has been ...

The DNA Doe Project says it's identified the remains of a man found a decade ago in southern Minnesota as World War II veteran Luis Gilberto Robledo. Project officials announced their findings ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Police often face challenges when it comes to solving a murder, especially when the victim can't be identified. But thanks to advances in DNA technology, they're getting some extra ...

WE BEGIN AT NOON WITH BREAKING NEWS. THE SPARTANBURG COUNTY CORONER’S OFFICE HAS IDENTIFIED SKELETAL REMAINS THAT WERE FOUND IN 2011. CAITLIN ASH WAS AT THE CORONER’S OFFICE WITH THE LATEST. CAITLIN.

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. It’s been more than 500 years since Leonardo da Vinci died. Yet, in those intervening ...