Join Maryam Hampton as she reveals her AncestryDNA results and explores her unique genetic makeup. As an African American, she discusses her journey to discover her ancestry, the DNA test process, and ...

Consumer DNA testing kits like 23andMe and AncestryDNA aren’t just making it easier to uncover your heritage or track down long-lost relatives. In some cases, they’re bringing previously unknown ...

A woman discovered her biological father at age 47 after taking an Ancestry DNA test. The test revealed her father was a man her mother had a brief encounter with in 1976, not the man she previously ...

Our hunter-gatherer ancestors have given us many things. They passed down mastery of fire for cooking and early survival technologies, such as stone tools. They may also have given us the secret to a ...

A new proposal filed on Tuesday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) would require foreign travelers visiting the United States to submit a long list of personal data, including their social ...

Running out of space on your phone? Don't upgrade your cloud-storage subscription just yet. Scientists in China have discovered that images, text files and other digital data can be stored in strands ...

The genealogy site’s clarification of its terms and conditions has barred those working on unsolved crimes from access to the company’s vast trove of records. By Corey Kilgannon Since online genealogy ...

Researchers studying Denisovan ancestry within East Asian populations found an anomaly in the lineage of the Jomon people. The group has little to no Denisovan ancestry, showing that this lineage ...

After two decades in the making, scientists have cracked the code on a drug that can repair DNA, setting the scene for a new class of therapeutics that can fix tissue damage that occurs through heart ...

What’s furry, cute, and may have ancestral ties to ancient wolves? Possibly, your dog. Researchers at the New York-based American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of ...