The results are transforming how scholars understand human history. By analysing parchment, researchers are uncovering ...

How many tiny pieces of plastic are currently inside your body? A series of headline-grabbing studies in the last few years have claimed to have found microplastics throughout human bodies—inside ...

In March 1853, Maria Van Dusen Hendrickson died suddenly in Bethlehem, New York. The cause was later revealed to be poisoning ...

Dr. Lee rose to fame after his testimony in Simpson's 1995 trial​, in which he questioned the handling of blood evidence.

Dr. Henry C. Lee, the internationally acclaimed forensic scientist and University of New Haven professor who worked on the O.J. Simpson and JonBenét Ramsey cases, has died at 87.

In “There’s No Judicial Climate Science Scandal” (Letters, March 21), Jessica Wentz states that a chapter she co-wrote on climate change is “rooted in settled science.” But science is never settled.

Martin Kamen and Samuel Ruben's discovery of the radioactive isotope carbon-14 in 1940 helped usher in a new era of dating artifacts from past civilizations. When you purchase through links on our ...

A member of the FBI's Evidence Response Ream searches an area around Nancy Guthrie's residence in Tucson, Ariz., on Feb. 11. Police say that DNA samples have been recovered in and around Guthrie's ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Conservation and historical groups sued Tuesday, challenging Trump administration orders removing exhibits on ...

WASHINGTON — Conservation and historical organizations sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over National Park Service policies that the groups say erase history and science from America’s ...