Ancient bones pulled from the soil of central South America are rewriting what I thought I knew about the peopling of the ...

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More than eight years after 38-year-old Sasikala Narra and her six-year-old son Anish were found brutally stabbed to death inside their apartment, authorities in Burlington County have announced ...

Authorities say DNA recovered from a company laptop linked Nazeer Hameed to the 2017 killings of Sasikala Narra and her ...

A New York judge on Wednesday allowed DNA evidence obtained through advanced techniques into the forthcoming murder trial of Rex Heuermann, the man accused of being Long Island’s Gilgo Beach serial ...

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A recent study has shed light on a unique group of people outside Africa who possess virtually no Denisovan DNA. This finding ...

A 38-year-old Indian man has been identified as a suspect of a Maple Shade 2017 double homicide, authorities announced ...