From the beginning of time to the origins of life, our "when" special series tackles the timing of crucial events and the ...

At NC State University, an English professor is searching for clues from the past. He's looked back as far as the eighth ...

However, the most fascinating discovery is that the team also found human DNA belonging to the ‘Fournol’ genetic ancestry, a ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

We tested the semen left on the shawl. When we matched that, I was dumbfounded that we actually had discovered who Jack the ...

Jack The Ripper's true identity has been one of the biggest mysteries over the last 100 years. But, now, scientists and ...

After 137 years of mystery, we may finally know the true identity of the killer who terrorized the streets of London in 1888.

Days after revealing the country singer is not her biological father, Hopie tells PEOPLE she "joined a support group" ...

Una Crown was discovered lying in a pool of her own blood in her modest bungalow in Cambridgeshire on January 12 2013.

Repeats Raise Risk. The more STR expansions a person carried, the higher their odds for AD (left). People with more repeat expansions tended to have worse tau pathology as per Braak stage (right).

In the bed of one of the stabbing victims, police said they also found what many regard as the case's key piece of evidence: ...

A historian believes he has determined Jack the Ripper’s identity through a DNA match of a shawl found at the scene of one of ...