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On 22 February 1498, a well-weathered mid-40s Christopher Columbus ordained in writing that his estate in the Italian port city of Genoa would be maintained for his family "because from it I came and ...

Did you know that Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews in the United States, who make up 10 percent of the American Jewish population, have higher rates of Jewish communal participation? They also have a ...

Retro cassette tapes may be making a comeback, with a DNA twist. While DNA has been used as an information storage medium before, researchers have now combined this with the convenience and look of a ...

An interesting new report was published about non-Ashkenazi Jewish communities in the US, focusing on Persian Jews in the Los Angeles area, Syrian Jews in Brooklyn, Bukharan Jews in Queens, and ...

University of Oxford-led research finds low-dose rapamycin functions as a genomic protector in aging human immune cells, lowering DNA damage. The mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) is a central ...

DNA collected from a 1994 sexual assault in California linked a 55-year-old man to four cold cases in Arizona, officials said. In the California case, the victim was able to escape after she was ...

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.

Authorities in New Hampshire have identified the last unknown victim in a notorious cold case that has captivated investigators for nearly four decades. The victim, found dead in Bear Brook State Park ...

Almost 30 years after six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey was found dead in her Colorado home, her family believes new DNA technology may finally give them the answers they’ve been searching for. A new Fox ...

Sept. 10 (UPI) --Google is celebrating the start of the 2025-26 school year with a DNA-themed Doodle on Wednesday. This Back to School Doodle looks at deoxyribonucleic acid, also known as DNA, "a ...